Topics Flashcards
What is Analyzing Data?
Involves interpreting data to draw meaningful conclusions about human behavior, society, and culture. Social scientists use qualitative and quantitative methods like surveys, interviews, and statistical analysis.
What are the Characteristics of Culture?
Culture is learned, shared, dynamic, adaptive, symbolic, and integrated. It includes language, customs, beliefs, values, and practices passed from one generation to another.
How does Culture relate to Discrimination?
Examines how cultural differences can lead to prejudice, stereotyping, and unequal treatment of groups. Cultural awareness is key to addressing discrimination.
What is Physical Anthropology?
Studies the biological and evolutionary aspects of humans, including genetics, fossils, and adaptations over time. It bridges biology and culture in understanding humanity.
What is Drawing Conclusions?
The process of synthesizing evidence and observations to form logical, evidence-based insights or theories about societal behaviors and trends.
What do Primates and Humans study?
Studies similarities and differences between humans and primates (e.g., chimpanzees, gorillas). Focuses on evolution, social structures, communication, and behavior.
What is Memory in the context of human behavior?
Examines how humans encode, store, and retrieve information. Memory is a cornerstone of learning and culture, as it allows the preservation of knowledge.
What is Culture within a Culture?
Subcultures exist within larger cultures, characterized by unique customs, language, or values, often shaped by ethnicity, profession, or interests.
What is the study of Sensation and Perception?
Studies how humans sense stimuli from the environment (sensation) and interpret these signals (perception). It’s foundational to understanding human experience.
What are the Kinds of Learning?
Classical conditioning (Pavlov), operant conditioning (Skinner), and observational learning (Bandura). Explores how humans acquire knowledge and behaviors.
How are Society and Culture defined?
Society refers to organized groups of individuals; culture encompasses their shared practices, beliefs, and values. The two are interdependent.
What do Emotions study?
Studies how emotions influence behavior and culture. Emotions are universal but expressed differently across cultures.
What are Research Methods in social sciences?
Techniques used in social sciences to study human behavior, including experiments, observations, case studies, and surveys.
What did Freud believe about Motivation?
Freud believed unconscious drives, especially sexual and aggressive instincts, and the structure of the psyche (id, ego, superego) play key roles in motivation.
What are the Causes of Prejudice?
Prejudice stems from socialization, fear of the unfamiliar, stereotypes, and societal power imbalances. Understanding these causes helps address inequality.
What is the Nature vs. Nurture debate?
A longstanding debate about whether genetics (nature) or environment and upbringing (nurture) have a greater influence on behavior and personality.
What is Social Science?
Encompasses disciplines like psychology, sociology, and anthropology that study human behavior, society, and culture using empirical methods.
What is Inquiry in social sciences?
The process of questioning and investigating to understand social phenomena, often involving hypothesis formation, data collection, and analysis.
What did Maslow propose about Motivation?
Maslow proposed a hierarchy of needs, suggesting people are motivated to fulfill basic needs (e.g., food, safety) before pursuing self-actualization.
What is Psychology?
The study of the mind, behavior, and mental processes. It explores topics like cognition, emotion, learning, and personality.
What is Cultural Adaptation?
How individuals or groups adjust to new cultural environments, often involving the blending of traditions and values.
What is Anthropology?
The study of humans, their societies, and cultures across time and space, with subfields like cultural, physical, and linguistic anthropology.
What is the World of Emotions?
Explores how emotions shape interpersonal relationships, cultural norms, and human decision-making.
What does Sociology study?
The study of society and social interactions. It examines institutions, groups, and patterns of behavior to understand societal structures and dynamics.
