General Anthropology Exam 1
2023/2024.
anthropology - *answers* the study of humans around the world throughout time
Holistic - *answers* encompassing past, present and future; biology, society, language,
culture
society - *answers* organized life in groups
culture - *answers* more distinctly human traditions and customs transmitted through
learning, that form and guide the beliefs and behavior of the people exposed to them
adaptation - *answers* refers to the process by which organisms cope with
environmental stresses
food production - *answers* the cultivation of plants and the domestication of animals
biocultural - *answers* refers to using and combining both biological and cultural
perspectives and approaches to analyze and understand a particular issue or problem
four fields of anthropology - *answers* cultural, archaeological, biological, linguistic
ethnography - *answers* provides an account of a particular group, community, society
or culture
ethnology - *answers* examines, interprets,and analyzes the results of ethnography
human biological plasticity - *answers* the living body's ability to change as it copes with
environmental conditions
primatology - *answers* the study of monkeys, apes, and other nonhuman primates
cultural resource management - *answers* involves the preserving of sites but allowing
their destruction if not significant
hypothesis - *answers* a proposed explanation for something, until it is tested it is
merely hypothetical, if a test confirms the hypothesis then we have an explanation
association - *answers* means that the variables covary (when one variable changes,
the other one also changes)
2023/2024.
anthropology - *answers* the study of humans around the world throughout time
Holistic - *answers* encompassing past, present and future; biology, society, language,
culture
society - *answers* organized life in groups
culture - *answers* more distinctly human traditions and customs transmitted through
learning, that form and guide the beliefs and behavior of the people exposed to them
adaptation - *answers* refers to the process by which organisms cope with
environmental stresses
food production - *answers* the cultivation of plants and the domestication of animals
biocultural - *answers* refers to using and combining both biological and cultural
perspectives and approaches to analyze and understand a particular issue or problem
four fields of anthropology - *answers* cultural, archaeological, biological, linguistic
ethnography - *answers* provides an account of a particular group, community, society
or culture
ethnology - *answers* examines, interprets,and analyzes the results of ethnography
human biological plasticity - *answers* the living body's ability to change as it copes with
environmental conditions
primatology - *answers* the study of monkeys, apes, and other nonhuman primates
cultural resource management - *answers* involves the preserving of sites but allowing
their destruction if not significant
hypothesis - *answers* a proposed explanation for something, until it is tested it is
merely hypothetical, if a test confirms the hypothesis then we have an explanation
association - *answers* means that the variables covary (when one variable changes,
the other one also changes)
