Basic Terms

Question 1

Cultural Anthropology

Answer 1

Heavily concerned with understanding the variations of knowledge, morals, laws, religion, etc. that occur between different societies

Question 2

Physical/ Biological Anthropology

Answer 2

Very science based; concerned with the biological aspects of human beings from an evolutionary perspective

Question 3

Linguistic Anthropology

Answer 3

History and languages and their evolution as well as endangered languages before they disappear completely

Question 4

Creole

Answer 4

Two parent languages coming together to form a new language that their children use primarily

Question 5

Archaeology

Answer 5

Hard work dedicated to discovering objects, artifacts and architecture

Question 6

Functionalism

Answer 6

Alfred Radcliffe & Bronislaw Malinowinski
Attempting to describe how a culture was created by examining the relationships between and the different parts of society

Question 7

Structuralism

Answer 7

Claude Levi - Strauss
Discovering hidden rules in culture
Binairy oppositions: Hot - cold Male- female

Question 8

Cultural Materialism

Answer 8

Marvin Harris
Incorporates ideas from marxism as well as has the three levels; Infrastructure, structure and superstructure. CM supports cultural determinism

Question 9

Psychoanalysis

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Sigmund Freud
id, ego, superego as well as the unconscious mind
psychosexual stages

Question 10

Id

Answer 10

SF
Unconscious; instinctual drives (bad decisions)
(opposite of superego)

Question 11

Ego

Answer 11

SF

Conscious; Rational, organized and realistic as well as conscious

Question 12

Superego

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SF
mostly unconscious; ideals, values & guilt morality
(opposite of Id)

Question 13

Behaviourism

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Anything anyone does can be recognized as a behaviour. Goal is to discover how people learn

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Classical Conditioning

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Ivan Pavlov
Dog experiment with bell and food
Stimuli come together to create a new response

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Opperant Conditioning

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BF Skinner

Bird Missile; Behaviour is a result of reinforcing consequences and the different types of reinforcement

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Cognitive Psychology

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Noam Chomsky

Thinking impacts behaviour, therefore could not be a behaviour itself

Question 17

Globilization

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Increasingly closer integrations of countries, cultures and economies, Few get more wealthy and many get more poor.

Question 18

Conflict Theories

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Feminist Theory

Marxism

Question 19

Anthropological Schools of Thought

Answer 19

Functionalism
Structuralism
Cultural materialism

Question 20

Psychological Schools of Thought

Answer 20

Psychoanalytical Theory
Behaviourism
Learning Theory

Question 21

Structural- Functionalism ED

Answer 21

Why are some societies successful while others fall apart? Systems working together and the theory that society functions better when there are shared values

Question 22

Technological Determinism

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Technology drives and shapes societies structure and culture ( the cause and effect between technology and social change)

Question 23

Cognitivism arose due to the rejections of which behaviour? NC

Answer 23

The prompt that thinking is not actually classified as a behaviour

Question 24

No other branch would be possible without the discoveries made in this area
options: Linguistic, Archaeology, Cultural or Biological

Answer 24

Archaeology

Question 25

Examines knowledge, laws, morals and customs that occur between different societies
options: Linguistic, Archaeology, Cultural or Biological

Answer 25

Cultural

Question 26

Documentation of endangered languages and drew connection between culture and languages
options: Linguistic, Archaeology, Cultural or Biological

Answer 26

Linguistic

Question 27

Essential in the debate on evolution. subdivisions include human adaptation
options: Linguistic, Archaeology, Cultural or Biological

Answer 27

Physical/ Biological

Question 28

which of the major disciplines can be described as the study of the development and structure of society
options: Sociology, Anthropology, Archaeology or Psychology

Answer 28

sociology