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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II

Subject : humanities
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1. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.






2. Type of personality disorder characterized by extreme suspiciousness or mistrust of others






3. The process by which a society's culture is transmitted from one generation to the next and individuals become members of their society.






4. Groups that share in some parts of the dominant culture but have their own distinctive values - norms - language - and/or material culture.






5. Becoming aware of something via the senses






6. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).






7. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).






8. A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests - an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals).






9. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.






10. Specific ideas that people hold to be true






11. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.






12. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).






13. A learning procedure in which associations are made between a natural stimulus and a learned - neutral stimulus.






14. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.






15. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.






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






17. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior






18. Reformers founded these ideal communities to realize their spiritual and moral potential and to escape from competition - communities designed to create perfect societies.






19. 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






20. Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact.






21. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.






22. Developmental Psychology: Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages)






23. Study of artifacts and relics of early mankind - the study of the remains of past cultures.






24. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone






25. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.






26. 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.






27. The doctrine that reality consists of several basic substances or elements.






28. A state or condition markedly different from the norm - behavior that departs from societal or group norms






29. 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.






30. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.






31. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations






32. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone






33. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.






34. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.






35. A branch of psychology that focuses on observable actions - particularly stimulus-response methods.






36. A Russian researcher in the early 1900s who was the first research into learned behavior (conditioning) who discovered classical conditioning.






37. 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.






38. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.






39. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.






40. Developmental Psychology: Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages)






41. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior






42. 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






43. 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






44. Systematic study of humans and biological organisms






45. 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.






46. Becoming aware of something via the senses






47. A set of informal and formal social ties that links people to each other.






48. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.






49. 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.






50. 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.