Exam 3

A pandemic is

None of the above a sudden raise in the number of new cases of a disease, diseases that are caused by animals, diseases that are always present in a population

The rise of food production lead to

accelerated population growth declining health elaboration of material possessions (all above)

A key requirement for the formation of a complex society is

an increased intensity of food production

Symbols

are particularly stable are easily remembered preserve a culture's conventional meanings (all of the above)

Which is not put forth as a possible reason for broad-spectrum collecting

average height of the population

Complex societies are characterized by

centralized political power

The ideal cultural patterns of a society

consist of the ideas people have about how they ought to behave

The anthropological attitude that a society's customs and ideas should be described objectively and understood in the context of that society's problems and opportunities is called

cultural relativism

Sickle-cell anemia

decreases the rate of mortality from malaria

The Natufians did all of the following EXCEPT

did not exploit any other natural resources besides grains

Archaeologist speak of domestication only when there is evidence that plants and animals show a ________ wild plants and animals

difference from

Diseases in urban populations are primarily due to

establishment of populations large enough to maintain disease in endemic form

Zoonotic diseases are diseases that

have animals as the primary host

When we say that a trait is a Mendelian trait we mean that

it is a genetic trait it is coded for by a single gene there are only two alleles for the trait (all above)

Hypothesized reasons for the decline and collapse of prehistoric states include

lack of a strong central institution environmental change more powerful enemies (all above)

Culture is

learned and shared

The Production Model for the development of states assumes

new social roles for craftspeople

Standards or rules about what is acceptable behavior are refers to by social scientist as

norms

In Malarial environment natural selection acts on the allele determining hemoglobin

primarily through differential morality

Direct constraints are

punishments for inappropriate behaviors

Archeologists are able to infer social inequality through

settlement patterns burial practices artifact distributions (all of the above)

Symbols are

something that arbitrarily stands for something

Societies with political and economic control over a territory and its inhabitants are called

states

To explain the Hebrew prohibition against pork as a reaction to pigs not fitting stereotypes about how animals behave is a _______ explanation

symbolic

The third epidemiological transition is associated with

the adaptation of microbes to our cultural practices

What we know about ancient despots is affected by the fact that

the despots exerted control over what was written

Informants' statements about culture may not always true because

the informant may lack a full understanding of his/her culture

The most enduring and ritualized aspects of culture are referred as

traditions

The rise in population growth that accompanies the adoption of agriculture can partly be explained by:

use of supplementary foods for nursing infants

The concept of the IQ test as it was first developed by Alfred Binet

was designed to measure age-related activates