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Practice Test Questions

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Practice Test Questions

 

Introduction to the Social Sciences

 

The Social Sciences does not include:

  1. anthropology
  2. psychology
  3. physics
  4. 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 ?

  1. Psychoanalytic Theory
  2. Structuralism
  3. Learning Theory
  4. 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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