Exam Review Flashcards
Going the Distance
Assumptions a social scientist makes? Anthropolgist
Anthropologist: Assumes you are impacted by culture and social media
Assumptions a social scientist makes? Sociologist
Sociologist - assume they can explain your behaviour by comparing you to other people like you
Archaelogy defintion?
The study of the physical remains of a past culture through excavation and reconstruction
Postmodernism
The belief that it is impossible to have any “true” knowledge about the world. No objective truth
Difference between skinners and Pavlov’s conditioning
Operant Conditioning vs Classical Conditioning
Who created the hierarchy of needs (plus levels)
Abraham Maslow
Self-Actualization
Esteem Needs
Belonginess and love
Safety Needs
Psyciological Needs
Anal
derives pleasure from learning to control anus
can lead to perfection and obsessive cleanliness (anal retentive) or extreme messiness (anal explusive)
Perceptual set
your tendency to perceive one thing and not another.
Structural Functionalism
to study how social structures function to serve the needs of society
Socialization
The continuing process where an individual learns the appropriate behaviours patterns, skills, and values for his or her social world.
Isolates
Children raised in near isolation within human households
know what the results are later on in life4 for all
Self concept vs Self image
Self-image - how someone views themself (internally, externally)
Self-concept - a more comprehensive evaluation of the self, how a person sees, values, thinks, feels, about themselves
Feminist Sociology
to examine conflicts created by gender (gender inequality)
Macrosociology
an approach of sociology that analyzes social systems on a large scale
Microsociology
the study of small groups and individuals within a society
Differences or similarties between norms and values
Values are general and norms are specific.
Norms are dependent on values
Values = beliefs and principles that guide how someone should behave
Norm = How someone should behave
Difference between MLA and APA
Social Scientists uses APA
Conflict theory
to study how power forms the basis of the relationships between different groups and creates social conflict
Symbolic interactionism
to study the individualś role and place within the wider society and how people create their world through social interactions
Ethics
moral principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity
Need to know what the different socializing agents are
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Sociology
is the study of the interactions among people living together in a society and their actions, beliefs, and behaviours in order to understand the society
Anthroplogy
is the scientific study of the origin, the behaviour, and the physical, social, and cultural development of humans.
Psychology
The study of human behaviour and mental processes
Nuclear Family
A family that consists of spouses and their children
Extended Family
A family system in which several generations live together in one household.
Blended Family
A family in which divorced partners with children from a previous union marry
Same-Sex Family
A family that consists of two individuals of the same gender, with or without children.
Anthropolgists that worked with the Yanomamo
Napoleon chagnon
Physical anthropology
the branch of anthropology concerned with the study of human biological and physiological characteristics and their development:
Human Variation
Paleoanthropology
Primatology
Conscious
information that we are always aware of; our conscious mind performs the thinking when we take in new information
Bystander effect
people are more likely to help you if they are by themselves then if their in a group
Psychological rape
Exposing someone to something they’re not mentally ready for
Ego -
Freud’s term for the rational part of the mind, which operates on the reality principle
Frontal Lobe
is involved in speaking and planning actions
Corpus Callosum
Large circular structure connecting hemispheres
Temporal lobe
analyzes sounds to make sense of speech
Hippocampus
transfers information into memory, stores the names of people and things
amygdala
two almond-shaped neural clusters regulating how emotion can affect memory and creating “fight or flight” response to fear
cerebral cortex
outer layer of cerebrum
Left hemisphere
communication and language, logic, math
Right hemisphere
spatial awareness and visual imagery, facial recognition
Cultural Anthropology schools of thought
Cultural Relativism
Functional Theory
Cultural materialism
Feminist Anthropology
Postmodernism
Sociology schools of thought
Structural Functionalism
Conflict Theory
Feminist Sociology
Symbolic interactionalism
Carl Jung
Creator of Analytical Psychology
B.F Skinner
Creator of Operant Conditioning
Lone-Parent Family
A family that consists of one parent living with one or more dependent children
Assumptions a social scientist makes? Psychologist
Psychologist - Assumes people behave the way they do based on past experiences, genetic makeup, and medical conditions
