Exam Review

Question 0

The trait of habitually walking on two legs

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Bipedalism

Question 1

The numerous individuals, institutions and organizations that influence and shape an individual socialization. Ex family, school, peer groups, media, etc

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Agents of socialization

Question 2

The largest and most developed portion of the brain, which is responsible for controlling memory, understanding and logic

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Cerebrum

Question 3

A humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers in which he client plays an active role

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Client-centred therapy

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The mental processes in the brain associated with thinking, knowing and remembering

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Cognition

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Information that we are always aware of

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Conscious

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A relationship between 2 factors but does not indicate causation

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correlation

Question 7

Created or shaped by a culture

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Culturally constructed

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The total system of ideas, values, behaviours, and attitudes of a society commonly shared by most members of a society

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Culture

Question 9

The ego’s way of distorting reality to deal with anxiety

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Defense mechanism

Question 10

A defence mechanism whereby a person refuses to recognize or acknowledge something that is painful

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Denial

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The shift of an emotion from its original focus to another object, person or situation

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Displacement

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Believing that ones own culture is superior to all others

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Ethnocentric

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The written account of a culture

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Ethnography

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The study of the origins and cultures of different races and peoples

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Ethnology

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In operant conditioning, the diminishing of a conditioned response due to a lack of reinforcement

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Extinction

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The first force to shape the individuals behaviour

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Family

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Examines conflicts created by gender; gender inequality

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Feminism sociology

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Unwanted child deserted at a young age and raised by animals

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Feral

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The continued focus on an earlier stage of psychosocial development due to an unresolved conflict at the oral, anal or phallic stage (psychodynamic school of thought)

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Fixation

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Preserved remains of biological matter

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Fossil

Question 21

A method used in psychoanalysis where a patient relaxes and says whatever comes to mind

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Free association

Question 22

A human or human ancestor

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Hominin

Question 23

A possible answer to a research question that explains what happens and why it happens

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Hypothesis

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A time in a teenagers life filled with extreme self consciousness as he/she attempts to test and integrate various roles

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Identity crisis

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A reliable and knowledgeable person who provides specific information to an anthropologist studying his/her community

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Informant

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Child raised in near isolation within a human household

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Isolate

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It is the relationship between two or more people that is based on common ancestry, marriage or adoption

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Kinship

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The scientist who specializes in the study of the human brain

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Neuroscientist

Question 29

A mental disorder involving anxiety and fear

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Neurotic disorder

Question 30

The types of conclusions based on facts and Data and uninfluenced by personal perspectives, prejudices or emotions

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Objective

Question 31

Careful watching of a group and in some cases living with its members and participating in their culture

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Participant observation

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The process of selecting organizing and interpreting our sensations

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Perception

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An individuals characteristic pattern of thinking feeling and acting

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Personality

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The process of learning the basic skills needed to survive in society

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Primary agents of socialization

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A defense mechanism whereby a person attributes their own threatening impulses on to someone else

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Projection

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A process that is used to determine the age of an object based on measuring the amount of radioactive material that has

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Radio metric dating

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Defines the practice of reflecting on your own worldview, biases and impact on the culture you are studying

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Reflexivity

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A process in which unacceptable desires or impulses are excluded from consciousness and left operate in the unconscious

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Repression

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The process of learning how to behave appropriately in group situations

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Secondary agents of socialization

Question 40

Reaching one's full potential; occurs only after basic physical and psychological needs are met

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Self-actualization

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Aims to understand human society, culture, actions, attitudes and behaviors ; focuses on the organized study of people and their activities and relationships

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Social science

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The process begins with asking questions, as these questions guide the entire research process

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Social science inquiry model

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The continuing process where an individual learns the appropriate behavioural patterns, skills and values for his or her social world

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Socialization

Question 44

A small group within a larger group who shares a common system of values, beliefs, attitudes, behaviors and lifestyle distinct from those of the larger group

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Subculture

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The types of conclusion shaped by a person's cultural and personal perspective, feelings and beliefs

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Subjective

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Information processing in our mind that we are not aware of

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Unconscious