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| Question | Answer |
| Anthropology (would say...) | study of lives and culture -bipedalism -big brains -abstract thought -meat eating -lanuage -sophisticated tools |
| Sociology (would say...) | study of human social life, groups and societies -rites of passage -cultures -parenting methods -cooperating in groups |
| Psychology (would say...) | study of behavior & mental processes -big brains -complex movements -prefrontal cortex -adolescence -complex and varrying personalities -ability to form social bonds -denial |
| Questionnaire | written response to list of questions; in depth but time consuming |
| Participant-observation | researcher observes and talks with people while living within their society |
| Survey | quick; ask questions with limited multiple choice answers and tally responses; lack depth |
| Field observation | observing outside lab; researchers get better idea of how people behave in real life settings |
| Experiment | one experiment and one control group; how one factor relates to another *disadvantage: lab environment limits realism of behavior or can be harmful to subjects |
| Interviews | time consuming; takes form of conversation; provides in-depth understanding of how someone thinks or feels |
| Case Study | involves repeated observations of the same situation or individual over time; provide a lot of detailed info; difficult to draw conclusions |
| Rock Vapour | gas let off by melting rocks |
| Goldilocks Zone | area below ocean floor that's cooler than the melting ocean floor and cooler than the lower depths heated by the earth's core |
| Natural Selection | the process by which only the organisms best adapted to their environment survive and pass on their genetic traits to the next generations |
| Charles Darwin | Naturalist; natural selection |
| Elaine Morgan | Aquatic Ape Theory -escape predators -long legs, outer pout lips, locking knee joints, nose up -tears, divers reflex, fat 1. Bipedalism 2. Big Brain 3. Tools 4. Language |
| Desmond Morris | The Pair Bond Theory females use sex to bribe males for food and protection while she cares for big head baby -bipedal -sex not limited to mating season, can impregnate female almost everyday of month 1. Big Brain 2. Bipedalism 3. Tools 3. Language |
| Jewish Bar Mitzvah | rite of passage -from believers bc were told to believers by choice -religious classes -ceremony: becomes bar mitzvah; takes on persona responsibility |
| Sexual Selection | the way evolution makes sure the superior males and females pass on their superior genes (not a conscious decision or choice) |
| Arena Behavior | superior male demonstrates his superiority over other males to win right to mate with all the females in the pack (lions, moose, kob) |
| Monogamous Relationships | one male mates with one female for life, ritual attracts "best" male to "best" female (penguins, swans, beavers, wolves) |
| Folia | part within the eye that is necessary for sharp vision |
| Bipedalism | ability to walk on two feet |
| Hominid | bipedal primates |
| Diver's Reflex | ability to hold breath for longer period of time in water as opposed to land |
| Denial | ability to to recognize truth (about death, etc) and carry on living; failure to tell fact from fiction |
| Helicopter Parents | parents who hover over their children; controlling; over involved |
| Coddled Kids | dependent on parents; spoiled; poor decision making skills; entitled; arrogant |
| Cognitive Process | looking at and analyzing ideas and images to gather information, make decisions and solve problems |
| Prefrontal Cortex | front part of brain; involved in decision making, inhibitions, risk taking, use of logic, controlling your emotions and ability to take into account feelings of others |
| The Teenage Brain | prefrontal cortex not fully developed until early 20s; therefore more likely to take risks, make bad decisions, etc |
| Cerebral Cortex | part of the brain that controls senses, thoughts, language and memory LEFT SIDE: language, verbal skills, logic, math RIGHT SIDE: musical skills, creativity, emotions, processing information |
| Personality | all of the physical, mental, emotional and social characteristics of an individual as well as his/her organized pattern of behavioral traits |
| Extravert | high energy prefer public role lots at once easily distracted |
| Introvert | quiet energy listen more than talk one thing at a time |
| Sensor | details & specifics live in the now step by step instructions |
| Intuitive | focus on big picture creative ideas like new skills work in bursts on energy |
| Thinker | make decisions objectively cool and reserved honest and direct likes debates |
| Feeler | decide based on values/feelings diplomatic motivated by appreciation avoid conflict |
| Judger | make decisions easily serious and conventional like schedules WORK FIRST, PLAY LATER |
| Perceiver | difficulty making decisions unconventional spontaneous PLAY FIRST, WORK LATER |
| Unstable | worrying vulnerable self pitying impatient |
| Stable | calm hardy self satisfied patient |
| Open to Experience | imaginative independent curious broad interests |
| Not open to experience | unimaginative conforming incurious narrow interests |
| Agreeable | courteous selfless trusting cooperative |
| Antagonistic | rude selfish suspicious uncooperative |
| Consientious | careful reliable persevering ambitious |
| Undirected | careless undependable lax aimless |
| Rites of Passage | 1. change from what they were into something new 2. remove yourself from society 3. readmitted to society as a new person |
| Roman Catholic Confirmation | -believer bc told to believe to believer who chooses to believe -religious retreat; classes -ceremony; confirmed, Eucharist; taking personal responsibility |
| Panspermia Theory | comets crashed into earth -brought with them microscopic forms of bacteria (life) THUS ALL CREATURES HAVE DNA IN COMMON |
| Hot Earth Hypothesis | planet was heated to really high temperatures via massive volcanic eruptions; extreme heat created amino acids which are essential for creation of proteins and DNA |
| Cold Earth Hypothesis | planet temp lowered (perhaps in ancient oceans) the chrystaline structure of ice aligned molecules in a new way to create ADENINE (one of the four bases to DNA) |
| Creationism | religion's story to explain how God created all pants, animals and humans |
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