Anthropology 210 Exam 1 Question &
Answers 2025
What is unique about the broad field of anthropology? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✅focuses on the bigger picture
of human behavior
What are the 4 subdisciplines? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅Cultural, Linguistics, Archaeology, and Biological or
physical
What is each subdisciplines focus of study? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✅Cultural- the study of human thought,
behavior, and lifeways that are learned rather than
genetically transmitted
Linguistics- the study of language and its relation to
culture
Archaeology- focuses on the reconstruction of past
cultures based on their material remains
Physical or biological- studies people from a biological
perspective, focusing primarily on aspects of humankind
that are genetically inherited
What do we mean when we say that anthropology is
comparative and holistic? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅compares one culture to another; holistic approach
means anthropology focuses on bigger picture of human
behavior
,Anthropology 210 Exam 1 Question &
Answers 2025
Why is anthropology especially useful in addressing
'nature vs. nurture' questions? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅The comparative and holistic approach in anthropology
provide a unique perspective on 'nature vs. nurture'
questions. Many behaviors and aspects of human
development result from a combination. Most are a mix of
both. Anything that is across cultures must be at least
somewhat nature, even though there may be nurture
characteristics.
What are the 7 main attributes of culture? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✅1. Learned behaviors
2. Use of language and symbols
3. Shared
4. Patterned and Integrated
5. All encompassing
6. Adaptive and sometimes maladaptive
7. Dynamic and subject to change
What are taboos? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅norms
specifying behaviors that are prohibited; eating, sex,
other bodily functions; taboos may mark group identity
, Anthropology 210 Exam 1 Question &
Answers 2025
What are symbols and why is their usage important to
understanding what it means to be human? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✅Symbols are words, sounds, images, or
objects that represent and transmit cultural ideas or
sentiments. The biological ability to use symbols is the
basis of culture.
What did Leslie White say about symbols? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✅she argued culture, and thus being
human, began when our ancestors began using symbols
to transmit culture
What are the processes of enculturation and
acculturation? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅Enculturation- the process of learning to be a child
member of a particular culture group (ACQUIRED)
Acculturation- exchange of some elements due to direct
contact (forced or unforced) while maintaining differences
What are norms and values? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅Norm- an ideal cultural pattern of appropriate
behaviors that influences behavior in a particular society
Value- a culturally defined idea of what is true, right, and
beautiful
Answers 2025
What is unique about the broad field of anthropology? -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✅focuses on the bigger picture
of human behavior
What are the 4 subdisciplines? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅Cultural, Linguistics, Archaeology, and Biological or
physical
What is each subdisciplines focus of study? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✅Cultural- the study of human thought,
behavior, and lifeways that are learned rather than
genetically transmitted
Linguistics- the study of language and its relation to
culture
Archaeology- focuses on the reconstruction of past
cultures based on their material remains
Physical or biological- studies people from a biological
perspective, focusing primarily on aspects of humankind
that are genetically inherited
What do we mean when we say that anthropology is
comparative and holistic? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅compares one culture to another; holistic approach
means anthropology focuses on bigger picture of human
behavior
,Anthropology 210 Exam 1 Question &
Answers 2025
Why is anthropology especially useful in addressing
'nature vs. nurture' questions? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅The comparative and holistic approach in anthropology
provide a unique perspective on 'nature vs. nurture'
questions. Many behaviors and aspects of human
development result from a combination. Most are a mix of
both. Anything that is across cultures must be at least
somewhat nature, even though there may be nurture
characteristics.
What are the 7 main attributes of culture? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✅1. Learned behaviors
2. Use of language and symbols
3. Shared
4. Patterned and Integrated
5. All encompassing
6. Adaptive and sometimes maladaptive
7. Dynamic and subject to change
What are taboos? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✅norms
specifying behaviors that are prohibited; eating, sex,
other bodily functions; taboos may mark group identity
, Anthropology 210 Exam 1 Question &
Answers 2025
What are symbols and why is their usage important to
understanding what it means to be human? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✅Symbols are words, sounds, images, or
objects that represent and transmit cultural ideas or
sentiments. The biological ability to use symbols is the
basis of culture.
What did Leslie White say about symbols? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✅she argued culture, and thus being
human, began when our ancestors began using symbols
to transmit culture
What are the processes of enculturation and
acculturation? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅Enculturation- the process of learning to be a child
member of a particular culture group (ACQUIRED)
Acculturation- exchange of some elements due to direct
contact (forced or unforced) while maintaining differences
What are norms and values? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✅Norm- an ideal cultural pattern of appropriate
behaviors that influences behavior in a particular society
Value- a culturally defined idea of what is true, right, and
beautiful
