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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Group
Cultural Diffusion
Cognitive Theory
Correlational Research
2. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Networks
Reactionary Groups
Social Stratification
Transference
3. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.
Carl Jung
Folkways
Utopias
Schizophrenia
4. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Subcultures
Beliefs
Secondary Groups
Social Cognition
5. 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.
Social Stratification
Ideals
Sigmund Freud
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
6. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Antropology
Sterotypes
Major Depressive Disorder
Social Cognition
7. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Punishment
Status
Abnormal Psychology
Perception
8. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Social Stratification
Identity crisis
Behavioral Psychology
Primary Groups
9. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Sigmund Freud
Correlational Research
Networks
Abnormal Psychology
10. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Cognitive Theory
Sensitive Development Period
Dominant Cultures
Prejudice
11. Is experienced when an individual experiences conflict between the beliefs - values and expectations of their primary culture and a new culture in which they must function.
Beliefs
Culture Clash
Punishment
Cognitive Theory
12. 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.
Social Cognition
Biases
Reactionary Groups
Role
13. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Beliefs
Latent Learning
Serial-Position Effect
Conflict
14. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Cultural Diffusion
Sensitive Development Period
Latent Learning
Sigmund Freud
15. 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
Social Cognition
Social Stratification
Role
Schizophrenia
16. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems
Pluralistic Ignorance
Secondary Groups
Erik Erickson
Negative Sanctions
17. Social groups - such as family or friends - composed of intimate face-to-face relationships that strongly influence the attitudes and ideals of those involved - groups that provide members with a sense of belonging and affection.
Primary Groups
Enculturation
Negative Sanctions
Identity crisis
18. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Multicultural diversity
Ascribed Status
Culture Clash
Cultural Relativity
19. 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.
Laws
Punishment
Correlational Research
Reactionary Groups
20. A term coined by Hermann Ebbinghaus - refers to the finding that recall accuracy varies as a function of an item's position within a study list. When asked to recall a list of items in any order (free recall) - people tend to begin recall with the en
Serial-Position Effect
Deindividualism
Laws
Social Cognition
21. The recognition that all cultures develop their own ways of dealing with the specific demands of their environments - the need to consider the unique characteristics of the culture in which behavior takes place.
Cognitive Theory
Perception
Pluralism
Cultural Relativity
22. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Archaeology
Pluralistic Ignorance
Conflict
Beliefs
23. Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture - norms for routine or casual interaction.
Punishment
Conflict
Conformity
Folkways
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
Norms
Laws
Deviance
Status
25. The ability of individuals to move from one social standing to another. Social standing is based on degrees of wealth - prestige - education and power.
Negative Sanctions
Social mobility
Ideals
Cultural Relativity
26. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).
Conflict
Erik Erickson
Values
Negative Sanctions
27. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Antropology
Role
Dominant Cultures
Enculturation
28. 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
Pluralistic Ignorance
Social Stratification
Deindividualism
Primary Groups
29. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.
Pluralism
Identity Formation
Folkways
Classical Conditioning
30. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Prejudice
Social Solidarity
Identity Formation
Pluralism
31. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
B.F. Skinner
Punishment
Beliefs
Cognitive Theory
32. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Humanistic Psychology
Laws
Conflict
Networks
33. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Pluralistic Ignorance
Habituation
Reactionary Groups
Multicultural diversity
34. A state or condition markedly different from the norm - behavior that departs from societal or group norms
Ivan Pavlov
Prejudice
Deviance
Antropology
35. Tendency to view one's own culture and group as superior to all other cultures and groups - belief in the superiority of one's own ethnic group.
Beliefs
Ethnocentrism
Role
Behavioral Psychology
36. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Ethnocentrism
Antropology
Social Stratification
37. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
Negative Reinforcement
Negative Sanctions
Enculturation
Networks
38. The recognition that all cultures develop their own ways of dealing with the specific demands of their environments - the need to consider the unique characteristics of the culture in which behavior takes place.
Cultural Relativity
Culture Clash
Archaeology
Utopias
39. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Pluralistic Ignorance
Ivan Pavlov
Social Solidarity
Positive Sanctions
40. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Biases
Values
Prejudice
Cultural Anthroplogy
41. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.
Classical Conditioning
Laws
Role
Humanistic Psychology
42. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Primary Groups
Sigmund Freud
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Schizophrenia
43. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).
Secondary Groups
Habituation
Values
Conflict
44. Pioneer of operant conditioning who believed that everything we do is determined by our past history of rewards and punishments. He is famous for use of his operant conditioning aparatus which he used to study schedules of reinforcement on pidgeons a
Cultural Relativity
Group Norms
Beliefs
B.F. Skinner
45. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Carl Jung
Networks
Group
Dissociative Identity Disorder
46. 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.
Cognitive Theory
Identity crisis
Ideals
Positive Sanctions
47. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Cultural Anthroplogy
Multicultural diversity
Cognitive Theory
Social Stratification
48. 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
Negative Sanctions
Identity crisis
Norms
Cultural Anthroplogy
49. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Group
Social Stratification
Laws
50. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.
Secondary Groups
Physical Anthroplogy
Classical Conditioning
Subcultures