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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Networks
Identity Formation
Dominant Cultures
Punishment
2. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations
Cultural Relativity
Jean Piaget
Negative Sanctions
Humanistic Psychology
3. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Schizophrenia
Erik Erickson
Archaeology
Reactionary Groups
4. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Socialization
Split Brain
Social mobility
Sterotypes
5. 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
Latent Learning
Prosocial Behavior
Classical Conditioning
Group Norms
6. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Latent Learning
Ideals
Folkways
Erik Erickson
7. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Group
Sensitive Development Period
Negative Reinforcement
Punishment
8. The ability of individuals to move from one social standing to another. Social standing is based on degrees of wealth - prestige - education and power.
Social Cognition
Punishment
Social mobility
Deindividualism
9. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Social Cognition
Subcultures
Mores
10. 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.
Identity Formation
Negative Reinforcement
Laws
Ideals
11. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Classical Conditioning
Culture Clash
Enculturation
Deindividualism
12. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Major Depressive Disorder
Mores
Cultural Relativity
Paranoid Personality Disorder
13. 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
B.F. Skinner
Archaeology
Sterotypes
Enculturation
14. 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.
Negative Sanctions
Split Brain
Cognitive Theory
Cultural Diffusion
15. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.
Primary Groups
Archaeology
Schizophrenia
Perception
16. The conventions that embody the fundamental values of a group - norms that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
Utopias
Abnormal Psychology
Erik Erickson
Mores
17. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Ideals
Erik Erickson
Antropology
Cultural Diffusion
18. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.
Social Cognition
Antropology
Networks
Cultural Relativity
19. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior
Sterotypes
Utopias
Prosocial Behavior
Cognitive Theory
20. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Ethnocentrism
Abnormal Psychology
Culture Clash
Sensitive Development Period
21. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
Negative Reinforcement
Punishment
Secondary Groups
Humanistic Psychology
22. 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
Sterotypes
Latent Learning
Punishment
Social Stratification
23. 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
Perception
Carl Jung
Archaeology
Laws
24. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Values
Ivan Pavlov
Schizophrenia
Subcultures
25. 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
Cultural Anthroplogy
Culture Clash
Antropology
Group Norms
26. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Negative Reinforcement
Ethnocentrism
Transference
Group
27. 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.
Correlational Research
Ascribed Status
Laws
Ethnocentrism
28. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Identity crisis
Archaeology
Jean Piaget
Jean Piaget
29. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Pluralistic Ignorance
Group
Pluralism
Cultural Diffusion
30. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.
Role
Antropology
Correlational Research
Major Depressive Disorder
31. 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.
Major Depressive Disorder
Correlational Research
Multicultural diversity
Habituation
32. 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
Biases
Values
Antropology
Major Depressive Disorder
33. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Reactionary Groups
Role
Humanistic Psychology
Cultural Diffusion
34. 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.
Multicultural diversity
Prejudice
Social mobility
Socialization
35. 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
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Carl Jung
Cultural Relativity
36. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Folkways
Ethnocentrism
Socialization
37. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding
Sigmund Freud
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Serial-Position Effect
Pluralistic Ignorance
38. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Dominant Cultures
Group
Archaeology
Status
39. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Folkways
Cognitive Theory
Values
Laws
40. 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
B.F. Skinner
Primary Groups
Deindividualism
Beliefs
41. Social approval for observing a norm - a reward or positive reaction for following norms - ranging from a smile to a prize.
Conflict
Negative Sanctions
Deindividualism
Positive Sanctions
42. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Multicultural diversity
Correlational Research
Role
Physical Anthroplogy
43. 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.
Cognitive Theory
Social Stratification
Humanistic Psychology
Prejudice
44. 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
Secondary Groups
Negative Reinforcement
Deindividualism
45. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
Social Stratification
Enculturation
Utopias
Jean Piaget
46. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Negative Reinforcement
Conflict
Status
Culture Clash
47. 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
Mores
Social Stratification
Cultural Diffusion
Mores
48. Erikson; stage of adolescence where teens are to develop a stable sense of self necessary to make the transition from dependence on other to dependence on oneself
Transference
Identity Formation
Behavioral Psychology
Dissociative Identity Disorder
49. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Abnormal Psychology
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Enculturation
Multicultural diversity
50. Acting according to certain accepted standards - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Habituation
Conformity
Status
Reactionary Groups
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