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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. One of two components - together with agricultural surplus - which enables the formation of cities; the differentiation of society into classes based on wealth - power - production - and prestige
Major Depressive Disorder
Social Stratification
Punishment
Humanistic Psychology
2. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Pluralism
Cognitive Theory
Institutions
Classical Conditioning
3. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Prosocial Behavior
Social Cognition
Correlational Research
Correlational Research
4. The rules and procedures that provide incentives for political behavior - thereby shaping politics - organizations or activities that are self-perpetuating and valued for their own sake.
Split Brain
Cognitive Theory
Institutions
Group
5. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Norms
Deviance
Social Stratification
Mores
6. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.
Split Brain
Antropology
Classical Conditioning
Enculturation
7. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).
Utopias
Values
Cultural Anthroplogy
Serial-Position Effect
8. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Dominant Cultures
Institutions
Behavioral Psychology
Networks
9. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.
Group
Prosocial Behavior
Classical Conditioning
Institutions
10. A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation - an opinion or strong feeling formed without careful thought or regard to the facts.
Prejudice
Identity crisis
Social Stratification
Split Brain
11. Is a prediction that directly or indirectly causes itself to become true - by the very terms of the prophecy itself - due to positive feedback between belief and behavior.
Folkways
Latent Learning
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Carl Jung
12. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Social Solidarity
Cognitive Theory
Pluralism
Serial-Position Effect
13. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something) - a principle or a way of behaving that is of a very high standard.
Role
Pluralism
Social Solidarity
Ideals
14. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Social Stratification
Correlational Research
Social Cognition
Sigmund Freud
15. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Erik Erickson
Biases
Split Brain
Cognitive Theory
16. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Social Stratification
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Jean Piaget
Secondary Groups
17. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Social Stratification
Serial-Position Effect
Cultural Anthroplogy
Social Solidarity
18. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations
Conflict
Latent Learning
Status
Jean Piaget
19. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Subcultures
Abnormal Psychology
Social Solidarity
Beliefs
20. Social approval for observing a norm - a reward or positive reaction for following norms - ranging from a smile to a prize.
Negative Sanctions
Antropology
Multicultural diversity
Positive Sanctions
21. Social approval for observing a norm - a reward or positive reaction for following norms - ranging from a smile to a prize.
Conflict
Positive Sanctions
Behavioral Psychology
Serial-Position Effect
22. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.
Antropology
Socialization
Ethnocentrism
Pluralism
23. A research strategy that identifies the relationships between two or more variables in order to describe how these variables change together. One advantage is that it helps psychologists make predictions.
Secondary Groups
Serial-Position Effect
Correlational Research
Primary Groups
24. Rules and expectations by which a society guides the behavior of its members - shared rules of conduct that tell people how to act in specific situations
Habituation
Utopias
Norms
Abnormal Psychology
25. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Habituation
Networks
Status
Correlational Research
26. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Serial-Position Effect
Antropology
Social mobility
Negative Sanctions
27. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Cultural Relativity
Identity crisis
Role
Conformity
28. 1875-1961; Field: neo-Freudian - analytic psychology; Contributions: people had conscious and unconscious awareness; archetypes; collective unconscious; libido is all types of energy - not just sexual; Studies: dream studies/interpretation
Folkways
Carl Jung
Primary Groups
Latent Learning
29. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Culture Clash
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Enculturation
Multicultural diversity
30. Increasing the strength of a given response by removing or preventing a painful stimulus when the response occurs. This technique is used to increase the frequency of behavior.
Negative Reinforcement
Prejudice
Serial-Position Effect
Correlational Research
31. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Social Stratification
Ivan Pavlov
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Identity Formation
32. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Punishment
Cultural Relativity
Identity crisis
Humanistic Psychology
33. Are rules that are designed to govern the behavior of the members. Are intended to integrate the actions of the group members. Are to reflect the appropriate behavior - attitudes - and perceptions of the the members. 'Conformity and compliance are tw
Secondary Groups
Ascribed Status
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Group Norms
34. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Deindividualism
Institutions
Carl Jung
Erik Erickson
35. A mood disorder in which a person - for no apparent reason - experiences two or more weeks of depressed moods - feelings of worthlessness - and diminishes interest or pleasure in most activities (Most common psychologoical disorder in the United Stat
Beliefs
Negative Reinforcement
Culture Clash
Major Depressive Disorder
36. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Latent Learning
Archaeology
Social mobility
Social mobility
37. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Deviance
Role
Cultural Diffusion
Negative Sanctions
38. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).
Mores
Social Cognition
Conflict
Sensitive Development Period
39. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Jean Piaget
Biases
Schizophrenia
Latent Learning
40. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Split Brain
Group
Classical Conditioning
Utopias
41. A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation - an opinion or strong feeling formed without careful thought or regard to the facts.
Prejudice
Prosocial Behavior
Values
Secondary Groups
42. An inclination for or against a person - place - idea or thing that inhibits impartial judgment. - a prejudice towards one particular point of view or ideology.
Networks
Social Stratification
Biases
Cognitive Theory
43. A condition in which the two hemispheres of the brain are isolated by cutting the connecting fibers (mainly those of the corpus callosum) between them. Research states that the left hemisphere is responsible for spoken language.
Split Brain
Subcultures
Positive Sanctions
Perception
44. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
Ivan Pavlov
Socialization
Transference
Serial-Position Effect
45. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Pluralism
Norms
Cognitive Theory
Conformity
46. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Ascribed Status
Identity crisis
Cognitive Theory
Deviance
47. A state or condition markedly different from the norm - behavior that departs from societal or group norms
Group Norms
Major Depressive Disorder
Conflict
Deviance
48. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Culture Clash
Laws
Prosocial Behavior
Sterotypes
49. A research strategy that identifies the relationships between two or more variables in order to describe how these variables change together. One advantage is that it helps psychologists make predictions.
Utopias
Social mobility
Punishment
Correlational Research
50. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Carl Jung
Utopias
Behavioral Psychology
Abnormal Psychology