Exam Flashcards
3 skills for a healthy relationship
Insight-what is right for you
Mutuality -both people have needs
Emotion regulation- not lashing out
How many Tutsi people killed in Rwanda genocide in what year
800 000
1994
How was the first president under apartheid
D.F. Malan
When was divorce act and no fault divorce established
1968
1986
What amendment of the constitution led to end of slavery
13th
When was columbine shooting
Apr 20 1999
When was Montreal massacre
Dec 6 1989
When was telephone invented
1876
When was airplane invented
1903
When was China’s one kid policy
1976
What fraction of Canada’s population are baby boomers
One third
When was NAACP developed and who was a key person
1909
WEB Dubois
When was the universal declaration of human rights written and who wrote a large portion of it
1948 by Canadian lawyer John Humphrey
How many European Jews were killed during holocaust
6 million
When did the first slaves arrive in colonial America
1619
What year was the KKK founded and where
1866 in Tennessee
Possible reasons for end of baby boom
Birth control invention More women's rights, more working and going to school, debt and career opportunities, and then age of marriage goes up Cost of living went up Lack of religious customs Sexual revolution
3 major sources of cultural change provide examples
Invention-new products or ideas like cellphones
Discovery- finding something that was previously unknown to a culture like global warming
Diffusion-spreading of ideas or tools from one place to another like soccer
Three main categories of mental disorders with example and description
Neuroses- high levels of anxiety like anxiety attacks
Psychoses- losing touch with reality schizophrenia
Anti-social personality disorder- pattern of rule breaking and harming others (serial killers)
Three physical and environmental factors that decrease fertility and explain
STDs- diseases like clamydia block Fallopian tubes
Estrogen- contraceptives in water decrease sperm count
Late births- having kids in 30s cusses less reproductive years remaining
4 categories of women who choose to be childless
Hedonists- want to maintain a certain way of life money and time wise
Practical-don’t want to pass on genetic defects
Idealistic-feels the world is unfit
Emotional- have no emotional attachment to babies or kids
When was birth controlled introduced in Canada
1961
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Stages one goes through in order to reach their maximum potential
Psychological needs (water)
Safety needs (shelter)
Love and belongingness needs (relationships)
Esteem needs
Self actualization
First women to win Cecil B Demille award for excellence and contribution in entertainment
Oprah Winfrey just won it
Joan Crawford was first women
John B Watson
Psychological school of behaviourism
Sigmund Freud
Psychoanalysis Unconscious mind Id- satisfaction Ego- sense of self Superego- moral
Nelson Mendela
First black president of South Africa
Went to prison for fighting apartheid government
Eli Whitney
best known for inventing the cotton gin. This was one of the key inventions of the Industrial Revolution
Marshall McLuhan
Encouraged people to consider the effects of new media on the individual and community
Developed four laws of media
Alvin toffler
Future shock book
Focus on learning how to adapt to control new changes brought on by technology
Beverly Tatum
We all have a racial identity and whites enjoy subtle rewards in Society
Important to engage in convos about race even though it’s awkward
Peggy Macintosh
White privilege knapsack
Carrying an invisible weightless backpack of skin colour privileges that the bearer takes for granted
Ronald samuda
Criticized the practice of using standardized intelligence tests on students from different racial backgrounds
John Howard griffin
Conducted and experiment of prejudice
Disguised as a black man he wasn’t aloud in washrooms or restaurants
Johannes Gutenberg
Printing press
Z
Apartheid
A strict system of laws that limited the rights and benefits of non whites
Participant observation
When anthropologists live with Thor subjects for a long time. They believe it helps them be accepted
Charisma
Magnetic style and having popular support and bits of extraordinary superhuman character
Egocentrism
The tendency for teens to focus on themselves and what others think of them
Cognitive dissonance
This occurs when an individual does something that is in direct opposition with what he or she believes is ok
Surrogate
Substitute or replacement
Bargaining for reality
The struggle for power by groups and organizations who try to convince others that their view is right
Deviance
Behaviour that goes against social norm
Prejudice
Set of opinions, attitudes, or feelings that unfairly place a group and it’s members into a negative light without proper reasons
Discrimination
Unequal treatment of people based on their race, gender, language, faith, sexual orientation
Technosis
Overblown dependency or attachment to technology
Stereotype
Widely heard idea about a particular type of people or thing
Capitalism
an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
Racism
Discriminating against someone of a different race based on the belief that ones own race is superior
Disparity
A great difference
Anti-Semtism
hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews
