Anthropology 2B Midterm 1
Comprehensive Questions (Frequently
Tested) with Verified Answers Graded A+
Anthropology - Answer: study of human biological and cultural difference across space and
time
Culture - Answer: Learned behavior that is transmitted from person to person
learned or shared meanings
ex)language
not just communicative but also thought
Subfields of Anthropology
Sociocultural Anthropology - Answer: Beliefs
study of present-day societies in non-western settings.
Linguistic Anthropology - Answer: The study of the construction and use of language by human
societies
Language, focal vocabulary
Language - Answer: set of written or spoken symbols that refer to things other than themselves
transfer of knowledge
Archaeology - Answer: study of past human societies, mainly on their material remains and
places where people lived in the past
,Biological Anthropology - Answer: The study of the evolution, variation, and adaptations of
humans and their past and present relatives
Paleoanthropology - Answer: Human evolution, fossils
Primatology - Answer: "primates" order of mammals
Human Biology - Answer: the branch of biology that focuses on human beings and human
populations; it encompasses all aspects of the human organism including genetics, ecology,
anatomy and physiology, anthropology, and nutrition, among others.
Epistemology - Answer: A way of knowing, building knowledge about ourselves, world and life
different assumptions and questions
Science - Answer: a way of knowing; has its own history and culture
a self correcting approach to knowledge acquisition
empirical- formulating ideas based on observations or experiments
Oxymoron of Creation Science - Answer: 2 words or phrases put together that are contradictory
science is also a faith; religion not so different from science
Scientific Paradigms - Answer: a shared understanding among scientists or scholars working in a
discipline regarding the important problems, structures, values, and assumptions determining
that discipline.
Theories - Answer: An explanation as to why a natural phenomenon takes place
broad conceptions
generates a falsified hypothesis
,modified or replaced depending on findings made through observations
Hypotheses - Answer: testable statements that are possible explanations for the processes
under study
can be falsified or disproved from evidence
Plato & Eidos - Answer: Classical Greece
concept about what was true
Eidos said you will not find the truth here, its in a different realm. Imperfections are what we
see here, distortion.
static view: they dont change
Aristotle - Answer: Student of plato
said truth is in the world of our everyday experience, opposite of mentor
static view: they don't change
Classical Greece
Great Chain of Being
Great Chain of Being - Answer: Aristotle
Order of increasing perfection of all living things in this world
Fixity of Species - Answer: all species were fixed in space, they don't change overtime
Anti-Evolution, no extinction
, Arch Bishop James Ussher (4004 BC) - Answer: said the creation of the world was the year,
4004 BC
Rene Descartes - Answer: philosopher
created cartesian coordinates
"I think therefore I am"
said born with knowledge of God, given with reasoning mind to investigate this world and God
Carolus Linnaeus - Answer: Came up with the classification system of all things, binomial
nomenclature
order based on anatomical characteristics, not ancestry
Binomial Nomenclature - Answer: taxonomy, classification system (2 name) of plants and
animals
genus and species name
Linneaus
Homo sapiens - Answer: The classified name for human beings, genus and species. Made by
Linnaeus
Lamarck - Answer: made the first scientific account of evolution
Provided first serious model of physical traits' passing from parents to offspring
Perfection and the Great Chain of Being - Answer: Progress doesn't mean getting more perfect
Comprehensive Questions (Frequently
Tested) with Verified Answers Graded A+
Anthropology - Answer: study of human biological and cultural difference across space and
time
Culture - Answer: Learned behavior that is transmitted from person to person
learned or shared meanings
ex)language
not just communicative but also thought
Subfields of Anthropology
Sociocultural Anthropology - Answer: Beliefs
study of present-day societies in non-western settings.
Linguistic Anthropology - Answer: The study of the construction and use of language by human
societies
Language, focal vocabulary
Language - Answer: set of written or spoken symbols that refer to things other than themselves
transfer of knowledge
Archaeology - Answer: study of past human societies, mainly on their material remains and
places where people lived in the past
,Biological Anthropology - Answer: The study of the evolution, variation, and adaptations of
humans and their past and present relatives
Paleoanthropology - Answer: Human evolution, fossils
Primatology - Answer: "primates" order of mammals
Human Biology - Answer: the branch of biology that focuses on human beings and human
populations; it encompasses all aspects of the human organism including genetics, ecology,
anatomy and physiology, anthropology, and nutrition, among others.
Epistemology - Answer: A way of knowing, building knowledge about ourselves, world and life
different assumptions and questions
Science - Answer: a way of knowing; has its own history and culture
a self correcting approach to knowledge acquisition
empirical- formulating ideas based on observations or experiments
Oxymoron of Creation Science - Answer: 2 words or phrases put together that are contradictory
science is also a faith; religion not so different from science
Scientific Paradigms - Answer: a shared understanding among scientists or scholars working in a
discipline regarding the important problems, structures, values, and assumptions determining
that discipline.
Theories - Answer: An explanation as to why a natural phenomenon takes place
broad conceptions
generates a falsified hypothesis
,modified or replaced depending on findings made through observations
Hypotheses - Answer: testable statements that are possible explanations for the processes
under study
can be falsified or disproved from evidence
Plato & Eidos - Answer: Classical Greece
concept about what was true
Eidos said you will not find the truth here, its in a different realm. Imperfections are what we
see here, distortion.
static view: they dont change
Aristotle - Answer: Student of plato
said truth is in the world of our everyday experience, opposite of mentor
static view: they don't change
Classical Greece
Great Chain of Being
Great Chain of Being - Answer: Aristotle
Order of increasing perfection of all living things in this world
Fixity of Species - Answer: all species were fixed in space, they don't change overtime
Anti-Evolution, no extinction
, Arch Bishop James Ussher (4004 BC) - Answer: said the creation of the world was the year,
4004 BC
Rene Descartes - Answer: philosopher
created cartesian coordinates
"I think therefore I am"
said born with knowledge of God, given with reasoning mind to investigate this world and God
Carolus Linnaeus - Answer: Came up with the classification system of all things, binomial
nomenclature
order based on anatomical characteristics, not ancestry
Binomial Nomenclature - Answer: taxonomy, classification system (2 name) of plants and
animals
genus and species name
Linneaus
Homo sapiens - Answer: The classified name for human beings, genus and species. Made by
Linnaeus
Lamarck - Answer: made the first scientific account of evolution
Provided first serious model of physical traits' passing from parents to offspring
Perfection and the Great Chain of Being - Answer: Progress doesn't mean getting more perfect
