ANTH 3200 Exam 3

What happened in Marion, Indiana?

2 lynching of African-american man

How/why was the Black Lives Matter movement founded? Who founded it? In response to which events?

2013 - driven by social media Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner

which racial/ethnic category of people experiences the highest death rates in US?

Black

Aside from natural selection (e.g. climate), what are some sources of variation in hair and eye color/form?

Cultural selection: environmental, plasticity Melanin

What is the Flynn effect?

IQ tests scores increase overtime, across generations

where does stunting occur most in the world?

Indian

What happened in Ferguson, MO?

Michael Brown shot

Are cognitive biases fixed? How do they change over time?

No not fixed. cognitive biases have roots, but how they manifest is learned

What are some key events in U.S. history that influenced immigration rules?

Page Act Asian Exclusion Foran Act Immigration Bureau

What are some systems where institutional discrimination might manifest?

Racial Profiling Biases in criminal justice system education

table:

UN, NON: equality UN, DIS: institutional discrimination PRE, NON: Latent discrimination PRE, DIS: Outright discrimination

Which nutritional deficiency is also relatively common in developed/post-industrial nations around the world?

Vitamin A

What are some racial/ethnic disparities in healthcare?

ability to pay insurance coverage access to medical facilities healthcare system discrimination

What is an implicit bias?

attitudes and stereotypes that subconsciously our thinking decisions and actions

what is racism

behavior motivated by the belief that one's own group is superior to other groups that are set a part on the basis of physical characteristics

What is a racial microaggression?

brief and/or commonplace indignities

What are some variables that vary between populations and cross-culturally which can affect the nutritional status of a population?

climate diet nutrition disease

why are prejudices/stereotypes to be "natural"

cognitive biases have evolutionary roots stereotyping common cross-culturally social identity theory

What is the Nativist movement

distinguish between "good old" immigrants and "bad new" immigrants immigrants blamed for evils or urban and industrial America

What are differences in perceptual styles (field independence or dependence)?

field dependence: perceptual focus on the whole (forest) field independence: perceptual focus on constituent parts (trees)

social identity theory

group members of an in-group will seek to find negative aspects of an out-group, thus enhancing their self-image

Growth vs. development?

growth: increase in mass or number of cells development: differentiation of cells into different types of tissues and their mutations

Most hunter-gatherers get most of their calories from what category of foods?

high in protein and complex carbs low in fats

Different types of human subsistence systems

hunting - gathering agricultural pastoralist

What are the different levels of racism?

individual/interpersonal institutional systematic/structured

What is the book The Bell Curve about?

intelligence is inherited and unchangeable throughout lifetime

examples of historical institutional racism?

jim crow laws eugenics Japanese internment

What did the study on facial recognition suggest about why people are better able to distinguish faces of their "own" race compared to those who look different?

neural plasticity of viewer: respond based on experiences

Stereotyping

process of predicting an individuals category and behavior based on physical traits

What are some false assumptions about race and intelligence made in The Bell Curve?

single number used to represent humane cognitive ability IQ test used to measure entirety of cognitive ability IQ tests thought to be unbiased

What are cognitive biases

systematic pattern of deviation from norm or rationality in judgment. Individuals create their own "subjective reality" from their perception of the input.

What are some reasons why stereotypes are no longer adaptive in human societies?

today society is complex and large, with overlapping group boundaries

Are there inherent biological differences in intelligence between the races?

whites average IQ higher than african americans