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