Cultural Anthropology Exam 2
Questions And Answers 2023 Update
culture is ____________ inherited - Answer-biologically
American children are among the
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high level of social stimulation they receive. T/F - Answer-false
Enculturation begins with the development of self-awareness, which may be defined as
- Answer-the ability to identify oneself as an object, to react and appraise oneself.
It is common in many cultures for an individual to receive more than one name during
their life. T/F - Answer-true
The _____ do not consider an infant truly "human" until they have given it a name. -
Answer-Aymara Indians
Which of the following includes definitions and explanations of objects, spatial
orientation, and temporal orientation, as well as culturally defined values, ideals, and
standards that provide an individual with a normative orientation? - Answer-Behavioral
environment
Living in a tropical environment where one learns to orient oneself through a vertical
landscape of tall trees and speckled light is part of - Answer-spatial orientation
_____ is the distinctive way a person thinks, feels, and behaves. - Answer-personality
In traditional Ju/'hoansi society, fathers and mothers alike show great indulgence to
children. - Answer-do not fear or respect men more than they do women.
Childrearing practices that encourage compliance in performing tasks and dependence
upon the group rather than on the individual is called - Answer-dependence training.
Dependence training is most often found associated with which type of society? -
Answer-Foraging and subsistence societies
Which of the following refers to the idea that character traits that occur with the most
frequency in a cultural society are representative of the values that culture embraces? -
Answer-Modal personality
Values highly promoted by a particular culture can be considered its core values. -
Answer-true
You are studying the modal personality of a particular group of people by giving them
Rorschach tests. In American society, a response to the white background (the PG on
which the inkblots are placed) has been associated with the psychological trait of
negativism. You are puzzled because you are getting a lot of white responses, but the
people don't appear to be negative in other respects. Then you find out that their
favorite color is white, and that they are treating the color of the PG not as a background
but as a part of the design of the inkblot. This is an example of one of the problems
faced by people trying to measure modal personality, which is that - Continues.... [Show Less]