anthro 2b egan midterm Comprehensive
Questions (Frequently Tested) with
Verified Answers Graded A+
Anthropology - Answer: the study of man
culture - Answer: learned meanings, symbols and knowledge
Sociocultural Anthropology - Answer: studies variation in cultural behaviors among human
population
Linguistic Anthropology - Answer: studies language and how it relates to culture, and the
languages of non-literate people
Archaeology - Answer: focuses on cultural variations in prehistoric and historic populations by
analyzing their remains
Biological Anthropology - Answer: aka physical anthropology
focuses on biological evolution of humans and human ancestors
analyzes the relationship between humans and other organisms
studies patterns of biological variation within and among human populations
Paleoanthropology - Answer: focuses of the scientific study of extinct members of homo sapien
by observing fossils
,primatology - Answer: focuses on the study of our primate ancestors
epistemology - Answer: a way of knowing and building knowledge
science - Answer: asks how, NOT why
the most useful scientific models make the least assumptions.
based on certain assumptions and also FAITH
oxymoron of creation science - Answer: it's an epistemology, but not a scientific one
never-ending circular argument
scientific paradigms - Answer: The practices that define a scientific discipline at a certain point
in time
Discrete and culturally based
Theories - Answer: Observations that are backed up by falsifiable proof, backed up by
hypotheses that haven't been rejected
Plato & the Eidos - Answer: Here, in our world, everything is a distortion of the true things
(Eidos)
Eidos: the true form of something, the perfect form that exists in another world (PLATO'S CAVE)
, Aristotle - Answer: Disagreed with Plato
The truth is all around us in this world, we just have to investigate it
Hypothesis - Answer: An explanation of observed facts
The Great Chain of Being - Answer: With all living things in this world, a hierarchy of perfection
can be created with the most perfect at the top
Fixity of Species - Answer: Immutability of species, static view of nature
"all things created @ the beginning of creation are the same, they are all are still here and
nothing has changed"
Archbishop James Usher: 4004 BC - Answer: Went through the Bible and counted the
generations in it, cross referenced it with other historical events
The date that the world was created
Descartes - Answer: "I think, therefore I am"
God implanted knowledge of God into mankind, therefore we use our minds to rigorously
investigate nature to "give glory to God"
Linneaus - Answer: Father of taxonomy, binomial nomenclature
- classified all things into a classification (Homo Sapien)
Questions (Frequently Tested) with
Verified Answers Graded A+
Anthropology - Answer: the study of man
culture - Answer: learned meanings, symbols and knowledge
Sociocultural Anthropology - Answer: studies variation in cultural behaviors among human
population
Linguistic Anthropology - Answer: studies language and how it relates to culture, and the
languages of non-literate people
Archaeology - Answer: focuses on cultural variations in prehistoric and historic populations by
analyzing their remains
Biological Anthropology - Answer: aka physical anthropology
focuses on biological evolution of humans and human ancestors
analyzes the relationship between humans and other organisms
studies patterns of biological variation within and among human populations
Paleoanthropology - Answer: focuses of the scientific study of extinct members of homo sapien
by observing fossils
,primatology - Answer: focuses on the study of our primate ancestors
epistemology - Answer: a way of knowing and building knowledge
science - Answer: asks how, NOT why
the most useful scientific models make the least assumptions.
based on certain assumptions and also FAITH
oxymoron of creation science - Answer: it's an epistemology, but not a scientific one
never-ending circular argument
scientific paradigms - Answer: The practices that define a scientific discipline at a certain point
in time
Discrete and culturally based
Theories - Answer: Observations that are backed up by falsifiable proof, backed up by
hypotheses that haven't been rejected
Plato & the Eidos - Answer: Here, in our world, everything is a distortion of the true things
(Eidos)
Eidos: the true form of something, the perfect form that exists in another world (PLATO'S CAVE)
, Aristotle - Answer: Disagreed with Plato
The truth is all around us in this world, we just have to investigate it
Hypothesis - Answer: An explanation of observed facts
The Great Chain of Being - Answer: With all living things in this world, a hierarchy of perfection
can be created with the most perfect at the top
Fixity of Species - Answer: Immutability of species, static view of nature
"all things created @ the beginning of creation are the same, they are all are still here and
nothing has changed"
Archbishop James Usher: 4004 BC - Answer: Went through the Bible and counted the
generations in it, cross referenced it with other historical events
The date that the world was created
Descartes - Answer: "I think, therefore I am"
God implanted knowledge of God into mankind, therefore we use our minds to rigorously
investigate nature to "give glory to God"
Linneaus - Answer: Father of taxonomy, binomial nomenclature
- classified all things into a classification (Homo Sapien)
