Quiz 4 (Lecture 8-9)

____________ are those values especially promoted by a particular culture and related personality traits.

Core Values

__________ is a child-rearing practices that foster compliance in the performance of assigned tasks and dependence on the domestic group, rather than on oneself.

Dependence Training

Like humans, apes are capable of referring to events removed in time and space, a phenomenon known as _______________ and one of the distinctive features of human language.

Displacement

________ refers to a people who collectively and publicly identify themselves as a distinct group based on shared cultural features such as common origin, language, customs, and traditional beliefs.

Ethnic Group

____________ are child-rearing practices that foster independence, self-reliance, and personal achievement.

Independence Training

___________ refers to a person who is born with reproductive organs, genitalia, and/or sex chromosomes that are not exclusively male or female.

Intersexual

The study of such nonverbal signals in body language is known as _____________.

Kinesics

__________ is a system of communication using symbolic sounds, gestures, or marks that are put together according to certain rules, resulting in meanings intelligible to all who share that language.

Language

___________ are the smallest units of sound that carry meaning in a language.

Morphemes

Many cultures consider name selection to be an important issue and mark the naming of a child with a special event or ritual known as a ________________.

Naming Ceremony

__________ refers to specific voice effects that accompany speech and contribute to communication.

Paralanguage

When we speak of someone's ________________ —the distinctive way a person thinks, feels, and behaves—we are generalizing about that person's internalized cultural master plan over time.

Personality

While collecting speech sounds, linguists work to isolate the __________—the smallest units of sound that make a difference in meaning.

Phonemes

The systematic identification and description of the distinctive sounds in a language is known as _________________.

Phonetics

_______ is a society in which two or more ethnic groups or nationalities are politically organized into one territorial state but maintain their cultural differences.

Pluralistic Society

_________ is the cross-cultural study of social space.

Proxemics

______, unlike culturally learned symbols or meaningful signs, are instinctive sounds and gestures that have a natural or self-evident meaning.

Signals

_________ is an organized group or groups of interdependent people who generally share a common territory, language, and culture and who act together for collective survival and well-being.

Society

_________ is a distinctive set of ideas, values, and behavior patterns by which a group within a larger society operates, while still sharing common standards with that larger society. None of these

Subculture

____________ is a set of visible or tactile signs used to represent units of language in a systematic way.

Writing System