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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.
Behavioral Psychology
Physical Anthroplogy
Ethnocentrism
Culture Clash
2. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Pluralism
Socialization
Ideals
Social Stratification
3. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding
Pluralistic Ignorance
Primary Groups
Secondary Groups
Norms
4. A false impression of what most other people are thinking or feeling - or how they are responding
Humanistic Psychology
Transference
Deindividualism
Pluralistic Ignorance
5. 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
Ivan Pavlov
Positive Sanctions
Social Cognition
Major Depressive Disorder
6. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Multicultural diversity
Reactionary Groups
Social Cognition
7. The ability of individuals to move from one social standing to another. Social standing is based on degrees of wealth - prestige - education and power.
Split Brain
Social mobility
Humanistic Psychology
Cultural Relativity
8. 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
Transference
Classical Conditioning
Behavioral Psychology
B.F. Skinner
9. 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.
Role
Conformity
Pluralistic Ignorance
Biases
10. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Cognitive Theory
Cultural Anthroplogy
Social Cognition
Ivan Pavlov
11. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.
Secondary Groups
Social Stratification
Serial-Position Effect
Utopias
12. 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.
Correlational Research
Ethnocentrism
Prosocial Behavior
Ascribed Status
13. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.
Social Solidarity
Archaeology
Pluralistic Ignorance
Schizophrenia
14. 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
Sigmund Freud
Serial-Position Effect
Conflict
Negative Sanctions
15. 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
Conflict
Correlational Research
Jean Piaget
Serial-Position Effect
16. A person's condition or position in the eyes of the law; relative rank or standing - especially in society; prestige
Status
Dominant Cultures
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Sigmund Freud
17. 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.
Deviance
Conflict
Multicultural diversity
Institutions
18. 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
Identity Formation
Conformity
Schizophrenia
Sterotypes
19. Unique characteristics of ethics groups
Multicultural diversity
Sensitive Development Period
Biases
Beliefs
20. Becoming aware of something via the senses
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Group Norms
Reactionary Groups
Perception
21. Acting according to certain accepted standards - adjusting one's behavior or thinking to coincide with a group standard.
Negative Sanctions
Conformity
Cognitive Theory
Perception
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.
Abnormal Psychology
Subcultures
Ethnocentrism
Social Stratification
23. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations
Split Brain
Antropology
Jean Piaget
Reactionary Groups
24. 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.
Sensitive Development Period
Enculturation
Ethnocentrism
Role
25. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.
Cultural Diffusion
Schizophrenia
Classical Conditioning
Identity crisis
26. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Institutions
Social Cognition
Social Solidarity
Social Stratification
27. 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
Ethnocentrism
Transference
Social Stratification
Perception
28. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior
Ethnocentrism
Prosocial Behavior
Secondary Groups
Habituation
29. 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.
B.F. Skinner
Beliefs
Sensitive Development Period
Classical Conditioning
30. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
Values
Negative Reinforcement
Negative Sanctions
Enculturation
31. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Split Brain
Dominant Cultures
Negative Sanctions
Archaeology
32. Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Pluralism
Group
Erik Erickson
Subcultures
33. A state or condition markedly different from the norm - behavior that departs from societal or group norms
Archaeology
Deviance
Role
Social Stratification
34. 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.
Positive Sanctions
Deindividualism
Abnormal Psychology
Institutions
35. 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
Group Norms
Sigmund Freud
Values
Abnormal Psychology
36. 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 Stratification
Group
Ivan Pavlov
Culture Clash
37. 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
Social Solidarity
Identity Formation
Identity crisis
38. Learning that occurs but is not apparent until there is an incentive to demonstrate it.
Sigmund Freud
Norms
Latent Learning
Multicultural diversity
39. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.
Enculturation
Prejudice
Habituation
Classical Conditioning
40. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.
Antropology
Cognitive Theory
Pluralism
Social Solidarity
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.
Transference
Positive Sanctions
Prejudice
Ideals
42. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.
Classical Conditioning
Sigmund Freud
Values
Utopias
43. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Social Stratification
Social Solidarity
Cultural Relativity
Cultural Anthroplogy
44. Historically significant perspective that emphasized the growth potential of healthy people; used personalized methods to study personality in hopes of fostering personal growth
Primary Groups
Culture Clash
Humanistic Psychology
Schizophrenia
45. Social disapproval for violating a norm - a punishment or threat of a punishment to promote conformity to norms.
Negative Sanctions
Latent Learning
Cultural Diffusion
Sensitive Development Period
46. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Correlational Research
Primary Groups
Beliefs
Sterotypes
47. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Utopias
Culture Clash
Dissociative Identity Disorder
48. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others
Antropology
Sterotypes
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Utopias
49. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Values
Abnormal Psychology
Norms
Group Norms
50. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Conflict
Jean Piaget
Mores
Social Solidarity