Behavioral Sciences 2

Nathan enjoys playing peek-a-boo with his mother. He believes that when she covers her face with her hands, she disappears, only to reappear when she opens her hands. Nathan is experiencing a lack of

• Object permanence

• Spatial awareness
• Emotional intelligence
• Cognitive development

The objects that distinguish a group of people, such as their art, buildings, and tools, are known as

• Traditions
• Religion
• material culture

• Language

Which of the following represents the main idea of anthropology?

• • To understand culture and a way of life by studying artifacts, structure, rules, and language

• The study of the physical world and its phenomena
• The study of the human mind and its functions
• The study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world

Judging another person’s culture based on the values and beliefs of one’s own culture is known as

• Cultural Relativism
• Ethnocentrism

• Cultural Appropriation
• Cultural Assimilation

Which of the following are the four types of anthropology?

• Cultural, Linguistic, Biological, Archaeological

• Cultural, Linguistic, Biological, Geographical
• Cultural, Linguistic, Biological, Historical
• Cultural, Linguistic, Biological, Psychological

In psychological research, the independent variable is the variable that

• is manipulated by the researcher

• is measured by the researcher
• is controlled by the participant
• is not affected by other variables

Karen and her husband both maintain full-time careers. At home in the evening, however, Karen finds herself responsible for the majority of the housework. Which concept best describes the pattern that sociologists find when working women perform more domestic labor than their spouses?

• Patriarchal dividend
• Second shift
• Glass ceiling
• Gender pay gap

Judith’s employer hired her to study the face-to-face conversations that take place between parents and teachers in conferences at middle schools. Her goal is to analyze the norms observed and the roles fulfilled by conference participants. Which of the following theoretical paradigms is likely to inform Judith’s research?

• Functionalism
• Conflict Theory
• Symbolic Interactionism
• Postmodernism

Reinforcers and punishers influence the probability that a given behavior will be repeated in the future. What impact does a negative reinforcer have on a future behavior?

• A negative reinforcer decreases the likelihood of a behavior being repeated
• A negative reinforcer increases the likelihood of a behavior being repeated

• A negative reinforcer has no impact on the likelihood of a behavior being repeated
• A negative reinforcer can either increase or decrease the likelihood of a behavior being repeated

Which of the following types of learning takes place through imitating others?

• Observational Learning

• Classical Conditioning
• Operant Conditioning
• Latent Learning