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Anthropology Basics - Praxis II
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1. Developmental Psychology: Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages)
Erik Erickson
Ascribed Status
Behavioral Psychology
Pluralism
2. 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'.
Physical Anthroplogy
Pluralism
Reactionary Groups
Ethnocentrism
3. Scientific study of humankind in all its aspects - especially human evolution - development - and culture - Studying the orgins and development of people and their society.
Antropology
Subcultures
Behavioral Psychology
Habituation
4. Specific ideas that people hold to be true
Carl Jung
Conflict
Identity crisis
Beliefs
5. 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.
Serial-Position Effect
Biases
Prejudice
Serial-Position Effect
6. Social approval for observing a norm - a reward or positive reaction for following norms - ranging from a smile to a prize.
Positive Sanctions
Enculturation
Negative Sanctions
Transference
7. It is the branch of anthropology that examines culture as a meaningful scientific concept.
Folkways
Physical Anthroplogy
Cultural Anthroplogy
Ethnocentrism
8. 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
Pluralistic Ignorance
Humanistic Psychology
Institutions
Serial-Position Effect
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.
Identity Formation
Biases
Negative Reinforcement
Cultural Relativity
10. Distress and disorientation (especially in adolescence) resulting from conflicting pressures and uncertainty about and one's self and one's role in society.
Humanistic Psychology
Identity crisis
Negative Sanctions
Laws
11. The process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another (psychoanalysis).
B.F. Skinner
Transference
Antropology
B.F. Skinner
12. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Correlational Research
Sigmund Freud
Sensitive Development Period
Sterotypes
13. 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
Split Brain
Major Depressive Disorder
Institutions
Sigmund Freud
14. 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
Major Depressive Disorder
Habituation
Jean Piaget
Institutions
15. 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 Solidarity
Punishment
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Role
16. Social position a person receives at birth or involuntarily later in life
Ascribed Status
Punishment
Pluralism
Cultural Diffusion
17. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Ivan Pavlov
Social Solidarity
Cultural Diffusion
Laws
18. 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.
Pluralism
Group
Correlational Research
Identity Formation
19. Informal norms or everyday customs that may be violated without serious consequences within a particular culture - norms for routine or casual interaction.
Behavioral Psychology
Major Depressive Disorder
Folkways
Jean Piaget
20. The ability of individuals to move from one social standing to another. Social standing is based on degrees of wealth - prestige - education and power.
Positive Sanctions
Social mobility
Cultural Relativity
Prejudice
21. A general accommodation to unchanging environmental conditions - decreasing responsiveness with repeated stimulation.
Conflict
Identity Formation
Correlational Research
Habituation
22. Values - customs - and language established by the group or groups that traditionally have controlled politics and government in a society.
Sigmund Freud
Negative Sanctions
Social mobility
Dominant Cultures
23. The spread of ideas - customs - and technologies from one people to another.
Deviance
Carl Jung
Cultural Relativity
Cultural Diffusion
24. The lifelong process by which people learn their culture and develop a sense of self.
Socialization
Reactionary Groups
Split Brain
Laws
25. Mental processes associated with people's perceptions of - and reactions to - other people.
Social Cognition
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Sensitive Development Period
Deindividualism
26. 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
Conflict
Sensitive Development Period
Sigmund Freud
Negative Reinforcement
27. 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.
Deindividualism
Cultural Relativity
Social Stratification
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
28. Developmental Psychology: Psychosocial stage theory of development (eight stages)
Values
Social Stratification
Erik Erickson
Antropology
29. 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.
Ideals
Ethnocentrism
Pluralistic Ignorance
Schizophrenia
30. A rare dissociative disorder in which a person exhibits two or more distinct and alternating personalities. Also called multiple personality disorder.
Negative Sanctions
Biases
Identity crisis
Dissociative Identity Disorder
31. 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
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Humanistic Psychology
Identity Formation
Split Brain
32. Psychological perspective that focuses on mental processes: how people perceive and mentally represent the world around them and solve-problems.
Sigmund Freud
Group
Cognitive Theory
Primary Groups
33. Abandoning normal restraints to the power of the group - doing together what we would not do alone
Deindividualism
Folkways
Cognitive Theory
Subcultures
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.
Antropology
Archaeology
Sigmund Freud
Pluralism
35. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Status
Social Solidarity
Paranoid Personality Disorder
Role
36. An event that decreases the behavior that it follows.
Status
Punishment
Erik Erickson
Cognitive Theory
37. 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.
Identity Formation
Major Depressive Disorder
Correlational Research
Institutions
38. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
Social Cognition
Enculturation
Abnormal Psychology
Laws
39. The state of having shared beliefs and values among members of a social group - along with intense and frequent interaction among group members.
Behavioral Psychology
Cultural Anthroplogy
Social Solidarity
Ascribed Status
40. 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.
Ideals
Conflict
Folkways
Dissociative Identity Disorder
41. Positive - constructive - helpful behavior. The opposite of antisocial behavior
Punishment
Prosocial Behavior
Cultural Relativity
Group Norms
42. 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 crisis
Subcultures
Identity Formation
Ideals
43. 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.
Culture Clash
Cultural Anthroplogy
Split Brain
Correlational Research
44. Enforceable rules of conduct in a society.
Correlational Research
Laws
Jean Piaget
Norms
45. The actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group.
Transference
Role
Perception
Antropology
46. 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
Social Solidarity
Prosocial Behavior
Norms
Social Cognition
47. A generalization -oversimplified view or opinion that members of a group rigidly apply to a thing -an idea -or another group.
Ascribed Status
Prosocial Behavior
Perception
Sterotypes
48. The field of psychology concerned with the assessment - treatment - and prevention of maladaptive behavior.
Jean Piaget
Correlational Research
Abnormal Psychology
Cultural Relativity
49. Beliefs of a person or social group in which they have an emotional investment (either for or against something).
Multicultural diversity
Ascribed Status
Sensitive Development Period
Values
50. 1896-1980; Swiss developmental psychologist who proposed a four-stage theory of cognitive development based on the concept of mental operations
Split Brain
Identity crisis
Biases
Jean Piaget