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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Cultural Relativity
Enculturation
Group
B.F. Skinner
2. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.
Cultural Anthroplogy
Pluralism
Networks
Conformity
3. 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.
Biases
Primary Groups
Primary Groups
Schizophrenia
4. Refers to viewpoints that seek to return to a previous state (the status quo ante) in a society. The term is meant to stand in opposition to and as one end of a political spectrum whose opposite pole is 'radicalism'.
Group Norms
Social mobility
Reactionary Groups
Classical Conditioning
5. Critical Period in development is a period of time which an organism typically needs to be exposed to a particular stimulus in order for proper development to occur.
Sensitive Development Period
Ivan Pavlov
Ideals
Cognitive Theory
6. Refers to viewpoints that seek to return to a previous state (the status quo ante) in a society. The term is meant to stand in opposition to and as one end of a political spectrum whose opposite pole is 'radicalism'.
Deindividualism
Reactionary Groups
Pluralism
Identity crisis
7. 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.
Social Stratification
Ethnocentrism
Utopias
Latent Learning
8. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding
Enculturation
Carl Jung
Pluralistic Ignorance
Socialization
9. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Ivan Pavlov
Institutions
Antropology
Status
10. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Socialization
Schizophrenia
Identity Formation
Identity crisis
11. 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
Ethnocentrism
Serial-Position Effect
Utopias
B.F. Skinner
12. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
Primary Groups
Subcultures
Positive Sanctions
Laws
13. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.
Folkways
Cultural Relativity
Values
Ivan Pavlov
14. 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
Reactionary Groups
Social Stratification
Major Depressive Disorder
Ivan Pavlov
15. Groups marked by impersonal - instrumental relationships (those existing as a means to an end). - groups that meet principally to solve problems
Perception
Reactionary Groups
Secondary Groups
Sigmund Freud
16. 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
Social mobility
Major Depressive Disorder
Carl Jung
Ivan Pavlov
17. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
Carl Jung
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Conflict
Punishment
18. 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.
Cognitive Theory
Split Brain
B.F. Skinner
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
19. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Latent Learning
Status
Norms
Abnormal Psychology
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
Antropology
Ideals
Group Norms
21. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Networks
Classical Conditioning
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Pluralistic Ignorance
22. 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.
Social Stratification
Ethnocentrism
Serial-Position Effect
Dominant Cultures
23. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Conformity
Role
Ethnocentrism
Erik Erickson
24. 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.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Schizophrenia
Correlational Research
Split Brain
25. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Deindividualism
Dominant Cultures
Cultural Relativity
Ascribed Status
26. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Role
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Perception
Primary Groups
27. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms
Punishment
Physical Anthroplogy
Networks
Transference
28. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Jean Piaget
Values
Dominant Cultures
Classical Conditioning
29. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Prosocial Behavior
Beliefs
Socialization
Identity crisis
30. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).
Ivan Pavlov
Prosocial Behavior
Physical Anthroplogy
Values
31. Critical Period in development is a period of time which an organism typically needs to be exposed to a particular stimulus in order for proper development to occur.
Sensitive Development Period
Social mobility
Primary Groups
Utopias
32. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Split Brain
Social Cognition
Habituation
Prosocial Behavior
33. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding
Pluralistic Ignorance
Subcultures
Primary Groups
Deindividualism
34. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.
Perception
Cognitive Theory
Negative Reinforcement
Antropology
35. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Habituation
Cultural Anthroplogy
Abnormal Psychology
Social mobility
36. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Pluralistic Ignorance
Beliefs
Social Stratification
Values
37. 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.
Utopias
Prejudice
Social Solidarity
Ideals
38. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Sensitive Development Period
Identity crisis
Latent Learning
Dominant Cultures
39. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Perception
Correlational Research
Folkways
Dissociative Identity Disorder
40. 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.
Social Stratification
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Humanistic Psychology
Split Brain
41. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Utopias
Status
Ascribed Status
Behavioral Psychology
42. Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis - 1856-1939; Field: psychoanalytic - personality; Contributions: id/ego/superego - reality and pleasure principles - ego ide
Group Norms
Sigmund Freud
Behavioral Psychology
B.F. Skinner
43. Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis - 1856-1939; Field: psychoanalytic - personality; Contributions: id/ego/superego - reality and pleasure principles - ego ide
Social Solidarity
Ideals
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Sigmund Freud
44. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).
Physical Anthroplogy
Biases
Values
Norms
45. Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth
Humanistic Psychology
Split Brain
Culture Clash
Prosocial Behavior
46. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
Negative Reinforcement
Group Norms
Social Cognition
Punishment
47. 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 mobility
Culture Clash
Archaeology
Antropology
48. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Punishment
Cultural Diffusion
Correlational Research
Multicultural diversity
49. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Carl Jung
Deindividualism
Culture Clash
Ideals
50. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Identity Formation
Social Stratification
Cognitive Theory
Carl Jung