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during a forensic anthropology class, Farah and Jonathan examine a skull with rounded eye orbits, a thin brow ridge, and no occipital protuberance. what is the sex of this skull?

female

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during a biology class, Chloe asked, 'the pelvis of a female is more ____ as compared to a male

wide and circular

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The stage that occurs between birth and one year of age is concerned with:

trust vs. mistrust

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in a forensic science class, claudia and liam are asked to determine the sex of a skeleton. which the most reliable bone to use?

pelvic bone

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what protects our brain?

cranium

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nicole and zhi are studying anatomy. the pelvis in the picture is most likely:

male

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peek a boo works on children in what stage?

sensorimotor

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farah observed that children who were exposed to the aggressive model were more likely to imitate aggressive behaviour themselves in this experiment

the bobo doll experiment

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this is what piaget called an internal representation of the world

schema

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the skull shows heavy brow ridges and an occipital protuberance. it is most likely:

male

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in a forensic anthropology class, claudia asked, 'what is one of the key elements in forensic anthropology?'

examining bones in a legal setting

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according to erik erikson, the stage in which a person wants to give back to later generations is

generativity vs stagnation

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a study of twitter reveals regional variations in the tweets, with speakers understanding each other through unspoken grammar rules. farah and grace noticed these patterns while analyzing tweets from different regions:

structural linguistics

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an anthropologist lives among the bedouins in the sahara desert for several months, learning about their way of life

ethnology

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piaget's theory of developmental learning focuses on ____ stages

cognitive

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What age is the concrete operational stage?

7-11 years

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erikson believed that people move through a series of ____ psychosocial stages throughout their lifespan

8

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according to erikson, what is the major conflict faced during adolescence?

identity vs role confusion

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which psychologist developed social learning theory, suggesting that people learn new information and behaviours by watching other people?

albert bandura

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you notice a skull with a rough and bumpy surface. what sex is this characteristic typically associated with?

male

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claudia and jonathan are working on a project. they need to identify a problem, develop a hypothesis, gather data, analyze data, and make conclusions. what steps are they following?

steps of the social science inquiry model

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during a forensic anthropology class, xavier and chloe learned that one of the ways to determine race using bones is by using the:

skull

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the crisis that occurs in young adulthood is concerned with:

intimacy vs isolation

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belief that society is stable because it serves the needs of its citizens, as seen in how chloe and mariah benefit from community services:

structural functionalism

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nicole noted human behaviour reflects the meaning people give to a situation, rather than the facts

symbolic interactionism

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one of the ways to determine race is by examining

the skull

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discipline that attempts to describe, explain, predict, and control individual behaviour

psychology

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why does an infant's skeleton contain a higher number of bones?

they are born with many bones that have not fused together completely

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the male skull is generally more ____ than the female skull

robust

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at what age is the formal operational stage of development

12 and older

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during a forensic investigation, suture lines on the _____ are helpful in determining the _____ of a victim

skull, age

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when trying to find the age of an individual, anthropologists will give an exact age of the deceased

true

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ability to learn new skills improves when the skill is practiced regularly. this is an example of the brain's ability to change its structure based on environment and experiment

neural plasticity

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participation in an experiment when pretending to be a subject but actually working for the researcher

confederate

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an anthropologist collects language samples in papua new guinea to try and find out which peoples are more closely related

historical linguistics

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what do people face during each psychosocial stage that can serve as a turning point in development?

challenge and crisis

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doing something because it feels good and ignoring the consequences

pleasure principle

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bone located at the front of the skull

frontal

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the female skull is more gracile than the male skull

true

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the cognitive ability to recognize that quantities remain the same when 2 glasses of water are sitting beside each other, and one is poured into a taller glass

conservation

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skull with heavy brow ridges and occipital protuberance is:

male

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The arm and leg bones can be used to determine forensic height

true

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forensic science and using skeletal remains for identification

anthropology

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a 38 year old woman quit her high paying job to focus on her children and become a school counselor. what stage would erikson consider her to be in?

generativity vs stagnation

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the structure of the brain that communicates between the 2 hemispheres is called the

corpus callosum

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correct order of Freud's psychosexual stages

oral, anal, phallic, latency, genitals

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do formulas for height change based on age, race, and gender?

yes

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what features of the skull can be used to determine the sex of a skeleton?

  • occipital protuberance

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  • brow ridge

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  • eye orbits

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3 concepts important to an anthropologist

  • myths

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  • ethnology

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  • kinship

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the cognitive ability gained during the sensorimotor stage in piaget's theory is

object permanence

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the younger an individual looks, the ____ cartilage they have

more

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Pavlov and BF Skinner are pioneers of which school of thought

behaviourism

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according to freud, reality principle is associated with which part of the mind?

ego

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isabella compares a 19th century garbage heap to recorded accounts of the 19th century

historic anthropology

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according to freud, feeling conflicted about the right thing to do and how to behave is associated with which part of the mind?

superego

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what sex is a rough and bumpy skull associated with?

male

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addressing a teacher as 'sir'

sociolinguistics

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what happens to excess gray matter in the brain during adolescence?

it gets pruned out, making brain connections more specialized and effecient

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according to your age and piaget's theory, what stage are you at?

formal operational

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what stage am i?

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toddlers wish to do things on their own, or they're ashamed

initiative vs guilt

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how many stages in piaget's theory?

4

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skull shows a sloped forehead and a square jaw. the skeleton is most likely

male

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at what age is the preoperational stage of development

2-7 years

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because bones can heal, a bone fracture is no longer evident after 10 years

false

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carol gilligan criticized lawrence kohlberg's theory of moral development based on

gender differences

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in what stage to children begin to use deductive logic, or reasoning from a general principle to specific information?

formal operational

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children learn to pay attention to the endings of words in all societies around the world

structural linguistics

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the frontal lobe of males is

low and sloping

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What stage am I?

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Kids feel good about being productive, or they feel inferior for failing to do so.

industry vs inferiority

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what stage am i?

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teens test different roles, or they're confused about who they are

identity vs role confusion

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use skeletal bodies for identification

anthropology

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eight year old steven has a difficult time making friends at schools. he has trouble completing his schoolwork accurately and on time, and as a result, receives little positive feedback from his teachers and parents. according to erikson's theory, failure at this stage of development results in

feelings of inferiority

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how people interact in different social settings. understanding and explaining patterns of behaviour - how people interact

sociology

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isabella, an anthropologist, collects tobacco seeds in central america 12,000 years ago

prehistoric archaeology

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which side of the brain is thought to control language and verbal abilities

left side

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freud believed that this side of the brain is driven by the pleasure principle, which strives for immediate gratification of all desires, wants, and needs

id

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jonathan and grace conduct an experiment to understand the nature of love and attachment. they worked with which animals?

rhesus monkeys

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which psychologist said this: adolescents are often in the identity vs confusion stage of their own development

erik erikson

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during a mock trial at school, farah and isabella wanted to test how accurate eyewitness testimony is. which psychologist would be most helpful in understanding the flaws of memory?

elizabeth loftus

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which is not a phase of freudian psychosexual development?

cognitive

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first stage in piaget's theory

sensorimotor stage

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the inability of young children to see the world through someone else's term

egocentrism

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at what age is the sensorimotor stage

birth-2

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example of an endocannabinoid

anandamide

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CBD is just as effective at producing a high as THC

false

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in 'evolution in one minute', both natural and sexual selection was explained using the coat colour of rabbits in a snowy landscape

false

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words at the beginning of the list were remembered more than words in the middle of the list. this is known as the recency effect

false

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working memory is something one can turn on and off at will

false

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if THC makes its way to the hippocampus, a person becomes

forgetful

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if THC makes its way to the basal ganglia, a person becomes

clumsy

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mores

stealing

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taboo

incest

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mores

murder