SocialSciences

fear of heights

the learning of the ideas, values, conventions, and behavior that characterize a social group; also describes the results of when two or more different cultures combine to form a new composite culture

the 2nd social and sexual stage of an infant’s development (after the oral stage) in which the infant learns to control bowel movements

fear or anxiety

belief that objects and natural phenomena (rivers, rocks, wind) are alive and have feelings

having no sexual organs or no sexual activity

members of the “beat” movement during the 50s, rejected US middle-class values in favor of radical politics and exotic jazz, art, and literature, (Allen Ginsberg (poet), Jack Kerouac (novelist), William Seward Burroughs (novelist)), “Cool, man”, “Daddy-O”

theory that psychology is essentially the study of external human behavior rather than internal consciousness and desires (B.F. Skinner)

a rejection of an applicant’s membership in a private organization, such as a club or fraternity

nomadic hunting and gathering people of the Kalahari Desert of southern Africa in Botswana, Namibia, and Angola

American author of “How to Win Friends and Influence People”

emotional release and purification (often through art), also the release of tension and anxiety that results from bringing repressed feelings and memories into consciousness

Mexican-Americans, more widely used terms are Latino/Latina and Hispanic-Americans

memories of mental patterns that are shared by members of a single culture (or all human beings), originally proposed by psychologist Carl Jung to explain psychological traits shared by all people, explains patterns in dreams, mythology, and fairy tales

book by Margaret Mead, said the socialization of children in Samoa results in a generally happy adolescence and transition to adulthood, challenged popular belief that adolescent biological changes produce stress (she said stress is from culture)

term for the relationship between married people, same as the nuclear family (married parents and their children)

buying unnecessary and expensive products and services as a way to show off wealth, coined by economist Thorstein Veblen in “The Theory of the Leisure Class”

earliest form of modern humans (early Homo sapiens sapiens) found 43,000 years ago, physically resembled modern Europeans, painted on the walls of their caves producing some of the earliest known human art, now use term European Early Modern Humans (EEMH)

money or property that a bride’s family gives to the groom or his family at the time of the wedding

skinny body type

middle body type (not skinny or fat)

fat body type

method of psychotherapy in which a small group of people engages in activities to increase self-awareness and improve relationships

the branch of anthropology that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationship between them