Chapter 1 Test Cue Cards

Question 1

What is anthropology?

Answer 1

The development of human species and cultures throughout the world

Question 2

What is psychology?

Answer 2

The study of peoples feeling, thoughts, and personality development

Question 3

What is sociology?

Answer 3

The development and structure of human society and how it works.

Question 4

Participant-observation?

Answer 4

A research method where the researcher is immersed in the day-to-day activities of the participants

Question 5

Gross Domestic Product per capita?

Answer 5

a countries economic output through individual wealth

Question 6

Intuition?

Answer 6

your own emotions and logic

Question 7

Kinship?

Answer 7

is a family relationship based on what a culture considers a family to be. (blood relationship)

Question 8

Patrilineal?

Answer 8

Members organize their families through their father’s line.

Question 9

Fictive kinship?

Answer 9

the practice of acknowledging as kin people who are not biologically related. (not blood relationship)

Question 10

Ethnography?

Answer 10

scientific study of human races and cultures.

Question 11

What is Marvin Harris’s main idea?

Answer 11

1. Infrastructure (material factors)
   Methods to produces goods and services needed to survive and prosper
   Methods to ensure human reproduction at a satisfactory rate
2. Structure (social classes, distribution of wealth)
   Domestic economics
   Political mechanisms
3. Superstructure (music, recreation, arts)
   Members behaviours
   Members mental process

Question 12

Experimental psychology?

Answer 12

branch of the discipline that sets up experiments to see how individuals act in particular situations.

Question 13

Clinical psychology?

Answer 13

branch of the discipline that develops programs for treating individuals suffering from mental illnesses and behavioural disorders.

Question 14

Actors?

Answer 14

people who become active participants in given situations.

Question 15

Confederates?

Answer 15

employed in psychology experiments to secretly participate along with actual subjects.

Question 16

Variable?

Answer 16

factor that had an influence on the experiment’s outcome

Question 17

Psychology–psychoanalytic theory

Answer 17

• a particular way of picturing the mind and how it works.
• The mind is divided into 2 parts (1. the conscious, 2. the unconscious)

Question 18

What is the unconscious part of the physconalytic theory?

Answer 18

• The ID which encourages people to seek physical satisfaction
• The SUPEREGO prompts us to do normal things
• The EGO refers between the two and deals with the external reality