EXAM REVIEW

Question 1

What is Anthropology?

Answer 1

The study of humankind around the world

Question 2

What is psychology?

Answer 2

the study of human behaviour/mind

Question 3

What is Sociology?

Answer 3

the study of how people act in group situations; the development of human society

Question 4

who is carl jung and his theories?

Answer 4

a swiss psychologist/psychiatrist
theory: studied about extroverted and introverted personalities

Question 5

Who is Abraham Maslow and his theories?

Answer 5

an american psychologist
Theory: hierarchy of needs -analysis of human needs organized into a hierarchy

Question 6

who is ivan pavlov an his theories

Answer 6

theory: experimented with dogs that display that it was possible to get a dog to associate the sound of a bell with a arrival with food

Question 7

who is sigmund freud and his theories?

Answer 7

theory: neurosis: mental illness involving the symptoms of stress(depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviour, hypochondria

Question 8

What is clinical psychology?

Answer 8

understanding human science, behavioural science, theory and clinical knowledge

Question 9

what is experimental psychology?

Answer 9

experimental with basic psychological processes such as learning and memory

Question 10

watson theory?

Answer 10

used animal experiements to determine if strict or flexible learning methods are more effective (behaviourism)

Question 11

spock theory?

Answer 11

believed permissive approach would result in successful, well adjusted adults
child rearing - encouraging parents to be loving and supportive

Question 12

what is structural functionalism?

Answer 12

a theory that society is a structure with interrelated parts to contribute to society

Question 13

What is symbolic interactionism?

Answer 13

how people create meaning through social interactions

Question 14

what is neo-marxist?

Answer 14

focuses on culture, politics and economy and how capitalism controls people

Question 15

what is feminism?

Answer 15

the belief that women have been disadvantaged in society because men have discriminated them (sex and gender issues)

Question 16

What is inclusionism?

Answer 16

conflict can happen between different ethnic, racial, and religious groups, as well as between rich and poor

Question 17

what is behaviourism?

Answer 17

human behaviour can be explained through how they interact with their environment

Question 18

What is conflict theory?

Answer 18

a social theory that different groups in society complete over limited resources

Question 19

What is acculturation?

Answer 19

prolonged contact between two cultures, during which time they interchange symbols, beliefs and customs

Question 20

What is singularity?

Answer 20

a small change can cause a large impact

Question 21

what is enculturation?

Answer 21

members of a culture learn and incorporate shared ideas, values and beliefs

Question 22

what is pluralism

Answer 22

people of different social classes are together in a society

Question 23

what is duality

Answer 23

the state of having two different parts that make up a whole

Question 24

who is max weber?

Answer 24

a famous German sociologist
- he believes that people provoke social change when they feel isolated from society (alienation)

Question 25

what is poverty?

Answer 25

deprivation where people lack resources that are essential

Question 26

what is relative poverty?

Answer 26

defining poverty by comparing deprivation of those who are higher

Question 27

what is relative poverty?

Answer 27

a way of defining poverty by comparing what people lack to what others have

Question 28

what is aggregate poverty?

Answer 28

a sum of poverty within a specific population/area

Question 29

what is comparative poverty?

Answer 29

literally the same definition as relative

Question 30

what is affluence?

Answer 30

owning lots of money or many things

Question 31

what are social issues?

Answer 31

involves social questions where individuals will disagree when trying to decide on an appropriate course of action

Question 32

what are social problems?

Answer 32

problems that many people consider to be harmful or destructive to society about which many believe something can/should be done

Question 33

what is social change?

Answer 33

changes the way society is organized

Question 34

what is a demographics?

Answer 34

provide population growth statistics that are useful to various groups (private companies, government)

Question 35

baby boom era?

Answer 35

nicknames: boomers, yuppies, gen x born between 1946-1966 marked an increase of birth rates in a country

Question 36

baby bust era?

Answer 36

nickname: twenty somethings

Question 37

what are the demographic eras?

Answer 37

baby boom baby bust echo boom baby boomlet gen alpha

Question 38

baby boomlet?

Answer 38

nicknames: gen z, igeneration, internet generation

Question 39

gen alpha era?

Answer 39

just gen alpha

Question 40

What are social trends?

Answer 40

the large scale changes in our society (an increase in immigration)

Question 41

Government controlling fertility?

Answer 41

attempts to increase brith rates to those who aim at reducing them

Question 42

what is fertility?

Answer 42

actual reproduction

Question 43

what is fecundity?

Answer 43

the ability to reproduce

Question 44

what is materialism?

Answer 44

a way of life that revolves around material goods

Question 45

what is mental illness?

Answer 45

health conditions involving change in emotion, thinking or behaviour

Question 46

what is neurosis?

Answer 46

experience high levels of anxiety or tension in managing their daily levels

Question 47

what is ethnocentrism?

Answer 47

learned to believe by people ho feel that their cultural group is superior to other cultural groups

Question 48

what is racism?

Answer 48

negative attitude and accompanying behaviour that is based on assumption on one's race

Question 49

what is systemic discrimination?

Answer 49

Patterns of behavior, rules, or practices within organizations or society that unfairly harm or hold back certain groups of people

Question 50

what is prejudice?

Answer 50

a set of opinions, attitudes, and feeling that unfairly cast a group and its members a negative light

Question 51

what is stereotyping?

Answer 51

false or generalized beliefs about a group of people that result in categorizing members without regard for individual difference

Question 52

what is discrimination?

Answer 52

inequitable treatment of people based on their race, gender, ethnicity, nationality, language, faith or sexual orientation

Question 53

what is genocide?

Answer 53

an organized, systematic destruction of an identifiable group

Question 54

what are war crimes?

Answer 54

identified by the UN as then murder, torture and hostage-taking of civilian nationals and widespread destruction of property

Question 55

what is crimes against humanity?

Answer 55

identified by the UN as the murder, torture, enslavement or deportation of innocent nationals

Question 56

what is the UDHR?

Answer 56

the 1948 United Nations statement which outline the rights and freedom of people around the world