Chapter 6, 8, 10 Practice Quizzes

The core value to which European Americans subscribe is:​

Dominance

National character studies have focused on the modal characteristics of emerging Third World countries.​

False

Normally, personality is like a mask that one wears, sometimes uncomfortably, throughout life. It is always external to the individual.

False

Temporal orientation allows an individual to learn about the moral values, ideals, and principles that are culturally significant.

False

The Kula ring is a form of barter in which no actual trade takes place.​

False

The more complex a society, the fewer types of personality that are tolerated.

False

Which of the following is not a chemical found in chocolate? Anandamide ​Phenylethylamine ​Tryptophan ​Formaldehyde ​Theobromine

Formaldehyde

​Sadhu is a:

Hindu ascetic monk

A society with extensive types of childcare, a desire to make the individual feel socially attached and generally free of stranger anxiety, and with high levels of sharing and social involvement would most likely have what type of training or children?

Interdependence

The personality typical of a society, as indicated by the central tendency of a defined frequency distribution, is called a:

Modal personality

Several years ago, the Italian tourism minister commented on the "typical characteristics" of Germans, causing a huge controversy as to whether or not a people could be labeled. This labeling and grouping is called:

National Character

Which orientation includes standards that indicate what ranges of behavior are acceptable for males and females in a particular society?

Normative

_____ is the distinctive way a person thinks, feels, and behaves.

Personality

There is a degree of task specialization in all societies. In the Danakil region of Eritrea, the Afar men occasionally mine what mineral as a trade good?

Salt

People who cross over or occupy an intermediate position in the binary male-female gender construction are called:

Transgender

Anthropologists focus on culture as a way of explaining economic behavior.

True

Culture-bound syndrome is another name for an ethnic psychosis.

True

In some countries, the informal economy generates as much as 40% of the GNP.

True

It is common in many cultures for an individual to receive more than one name during their life.

True

Schizophrenia is one of the most common of all psychoses.

True

The underlying structure of a mental illness may be the same, but it is expressed in a culturally-specific manner.

True

​Both Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict were pioneers in the culture and personality movement in anthropology.

True

​The significance of the concept of tabula rasa is that it emphasizes the importance of culture rather than biological inheritance in determining an individual's characteristics.

True

In today's Native American societies, the preferred term to describe an individual who falls between the categories of "man" and "woman" is known as:

Two-spirit

What is the fear reaction of being bewitched found among Algonquian hunters?

Windigo

All of the following statements about the naming ceremony are true except: personal names create a sense of individual identity. ​through naming, the social group acknowledges the child's birthright. ​names express multiple aspects of the group identity as well. ​naming creates social identity. ​all cultures have some ceremony to mark the naming of a child.

all cultures have some ceremony to mark the naming of a child.

Ideal "cultural personality" traits among Yanomamo men would include being:

fierce and humorous.

Leveling mechanisms are:

found in communities where property is not allowed to threaten egalitarian social order

Tools tend to be fewer and simpler among:

mobile food foragers and pastoralists

A study of childrearing among the Ju/'hoansi of Africa indicates that:

​boys and girls are raised in a very similar manner and are both mild-mannered and self-reliant

An ethnic psychosis refers to a:

​psychosis characterized by symptoms peculiar to a particular group

John Locke's theory of tabula rasa was not sufficient because it did not:

​take genetic contributions into account

Which of the following situations represents a flexible/integrated pattern of gender division of labor?​ A pastoral nomadic camp in which the men spend most of the time with the herds, and women remain in camp and make butter and clothing.​ An intensive agricultural society in which the men are out plowing the fields from dawn until dusk while the women are making bread, gathering eggs, making baskets, and other household work. ​A foraging society where both men and women contribute to daily food consumption, share in responsibilities, and sometimes exchange duties.​ An industrial society in which a factory worker leaves for work at 7 a.m. and returns home at 5:30 p.m., while his wife takes care of the children at home.​ A factory where both men and women work, although women are the managers and men the line workers.

​A foraging society where both men and women contribute to daily food consumption, share in responsibilities, and sometimes exchange duties.