Practice Test Questions
Introduction to the Social Sciences
The Social Sciences does not include:
- anthropology
- psychology
- physics
- sociology
What do anthropologists believe is the best way to observe another society/culture?:
a. be an active participant
b. be a keen observer and take lots of feild notes to study
c. ask series of questions to the subjects being studied
d. to mock them and see how they respond
Which of the following is NOT a Psychological School of Thought ?
- Psychoanalytic Theory
- Structuralism
- Learning Theory
- Behaviouralism
Answer: what is 5-3? that's the correct answer above.
Which of the following is a ranking of authority and power?
a). role
b). hierarchy
c). status
d). value
Answer: b
A family relationship based on what a culture considers to be a family is
a). intuition
b). binary opposite
c). kinship
d). fictive kinship
Answer: c
freuds term for the part of the unconscious mind that refers between the id and the superego
a). id
b). ego
c). variable
d). superego
answer: b
the term used be social scientists for people who become active participants in given situations
a). actor
b). ego
c). experimental psychology
d). neurotic
answer: a
Comments (14)
jake macdouell said
at 9:15 pm on Feb 11, 2009
1. According to a Neo-Marxist, the purpose of a school is to:
a) educate youth
b) Socialize and make new friends
c) perpetuate the division between powerful and powerless
d) adapt youth to society
answer: c)
2. According to Psychoanalalytical Theorists (Sigmund Freud), the mind is divided into three parts, what are they?:
a) conscious, subconscious, unconscious
b) Id, Ego, Superego
c) Frontal lobe, cerebellum, hypothalamus
answer: b)
3. Which of the following is NOT a branch of Psychology?:
a) Clinical psychology
b) Experimental psychology
c) Medical psychology
d) None of the above
RebeccahHoekstra said
at 12:24 am on Feb 12, 2009
What is correlation?
a) Association connection relationship or link between two variables.
b) Connection of two principles that seem alike.
c) Principles acting upon each other.
d) An educated statement that makes sense.
(a)
What is a method used for psychology?
a) Living with a cultural group.
b) Conducting statistical analysis and observations.
c) Studying people’s feelings through interviews to determine past influential experiences
d) Conducting animal experiences?
(cd)
jake macdouell said
at 9:16 pm on Feb 11, 2009
answer is c) for #3
Kenzie Merritt said
at 10:28 pm on Feb 11, 2009
The best way to describe the word patrilineal is:
a) Members of a family who organize their families through their father's line
b) members of a family who organize their families through their mother's line
c) A family relationship based on what a culture considers to be a family
d) None of the above
answer a:)
Kenzie Merritt said
at 10:29 pm on Feb 11, 2009
According to structuralists, the human mind functions on the principal of:
a) materialism
b) Determinism
c) Binary opposites
d) institutions
answer c:)
Kenzie Merritt said
at 10:32 pm on Feb 11, 2009
Which of the following is NOT a school of thought in psychology:
a) Psychoanalytic theory
b) behaviourism
c) Learning theory
d) Neurotic Theory
Kenzie Merritt said
at 10:33 pm on Feb 11, 2009
oh...answer is d
keith walsh said
at 10:23 am on Feb 12, 2009
GDP stands for:
a) General Decreased Population
b) Gross Domestic Product
c) Gross Domestic Population
d) Great Democratic Party
b)
Jaime Oliver said
at 10:27 am on Feb 12, 2009
1. What is the definition of kinship?
a) a family relationship based on what a culture considers family to be
b) a relationship you have with close friends who you assume to be your family
c) the practice of acknowledging as kin people who are not biologically related
d) any type of relationship
answer: a
2. What is etnohgraphy?
a)another word for anthropology
b) filed work of anthropologists
c) compiling detailed field notes
d) completley immersing ones self in a different cultre
answer: b
3. Which of the following is not a school of thought in anthropology?
a) functionalism
b) structuralism
c) determinism
d) cultural materialism
answer: c
4. What is the definition for experimental psychology?
a) a braanch that develops programs for treating individuals with mental disorder
b) a branch of the disciplne that sets up experiments to see how individuals react / act in a particular situation
c) a specific example of psychology
d) another term for clinical psychology
answer: b
Emily Neilson said
at 10:27 am on Feb 12, 2009
What is participant-observation?
a) when scientists watch other scientists conduct experiments
b) when anthropologists live with the people they are studying to get a better understanding of how they live
c) an audiance
d) a written lab report
What is Kinship?
a) a family relationship based on what society thinks is a family
b) an illness that came from africa
c) a small community
d) a pirate ship
Kristie said
at 10:28 am on Feb 12, 2009
What are norms
a) specific rules that outline wha6t is proper behaviour within a society
b)actions that people think are normal
c)behavouir issues
d) the way others see people in society
Answer a
According to Karl Marx what are the keys to understanding society?
A)laws
B) understanding different cultures
C) economic power and political power
D) political power
Answer C
keith walsh said
at 10:28 am on Feb 12, 2009
Patrilineal is the organization of family's through
a) the mother's line
b) the father's line
c) gender
d) the division of material wealth
b)
Daniel Bailey said
at 6:00 pm on Feb 12, 2009
A way of life with personal or societal values preoccupied with obtaining material possessions
A) hierarchy
B)behaviourism
C)materialism
D)functionalism
*C
Bionislaws Malinowskis principle that humans tend to see things in terms of 2 forces that are opposite to each other (e.g night/day)
A)binary opposites
B)inclusionism
C)neo-marxism
D)canary opposites
*A
Type of Psychology that develops programs for treating individuals suffering from mental illness/behavioural disorders
A) experimental
B) learning
C) clinical
D) psychoanalytic
*C
Jacob Cary said
at 7:18 pm on Feb 12, 2009
A famous practitioner in the school of thought psychoanalytic theory was?
a) John B. Watson
b)Benjamin Spock
c)Sigmund Freud
d)Ivan Pavlov
answer c)
The time period for the Cultural Materialism school of thought was?
a)1930's to 1960's
b)1940's to 1970's
c)1990's to present
d)1970's to present
answer d)
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