Culture MCQ

Popular culture is practiced by a diverse and __________ group of people.

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Correct Answer: Heterogeneous

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__________ are judgments about what is intrinsically important or meaningful.

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Correct Answer: Values

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Standards by which a society defines what is desirable and undesirable are known as_____

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Correct Answer: Values

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Signs are arbitrary units of meaning that can stand for different _____ phenomena.

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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The ability to use and understand symbols is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Symbolic Learning

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Sty is a group of people who_____

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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______ is a type of learning in which an organism observes another organism’s response to a stimulus and then adds that response to its own collection of behaviors.

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Correct Answer: Social Learning

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Situational Learning is a type of learning in which an organism adjusts its behavior in response to _____ experience.

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Correct Answer: Direct

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Signs are units of meaning that are directly associated with concrete _____ phenomena.

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Correct Answer: Physical

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The mental codification of experience that includes a particular organized way of perceiving cognitively and responding to a complex situation or set of stimuli is known as Schemas.

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Correct Answer: True

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People’s actual behaviors, as opposed to ideal culture is known as_____

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Correct Answer: Real culture

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Shared rules that define how people are supposed to behave under certain circumstances refers to _____

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Correct Answer: Norms

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Values, beliefs, and norms are considered in _____

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Correct Answer: Non material Culture

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Mores are _____ norms than folkways.

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Correct Answer: Stronger

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Non tangible products of human society refers to Material Culture.

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Correct Answer: False

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Ideology means cultural symbols and beliefs that_____ the interests of specific groups within a society.

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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Ideal Culture is what people say _____

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Correct Answer: Both a and c

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Norms guiding ordinary usages and conventions of everyday life refer to _____

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Correct Answer: Folkways

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Ethnicity cultural differences among populations, usually based on attributes such as _____ and cultural ideas about common descent or specific territory.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Ethnic Group is a group that _____ a culture.

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Correct Answer: Shares

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The process of social interaction through which people learn their culture is known as Enculturation.

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Correct Answer: True

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Culture is a shared way of life that includes_____ products that are transmitted within a society or social group.

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Correct Answer: Both

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Essential behavioral characteristics of humans found in all societies refers to _____

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Correct Answer: Cultural Universals

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Cultural Relativism is the view that cultural traditions must be understood within the context of a particular society’s responses to_____

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Cultural Hegemony is the control over _____ exercised by the dominant group in a society.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Beliefs are specific cultural conventions concerning_____ assumptions shared by a particular group.

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Correct Answer: Both

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Which anthropological concept and method is used to combat ethnocentrism in the study of culture?

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Correct Answer: Cultural relativism

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According to Sir Edward Burnett Tylor’s definition of culture, culture is distinct from our human biological characteristics and genetics.

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Correct Answer: True

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The Shrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico City is an example of ______ that is also a powerful symbolic communication.

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Correct Answer: Material culture

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According to Brown’s concept of the Universal People, human universals are likely the outcome of ______.

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Correct Answer: Commonly shared physical and social challenges that all societies face

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According to the text, society is the byproduct of culture.

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Correct Answer: False

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Ethnocentrism is a universal phenomenon.

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Correct Answer: True

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Humans, wolves, and chimpanzees are capable of learning by observing the actions and outcomes of the behavior of others. What is this type of learning called?

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Correct Answer: Social learning

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Contemporary anthropologists note that culture is “contested.” What does this mean?

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Correct Answer: People may disagree and struggle over the specifics of culture.

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In anthropological terminology, the process of social interaction through which people acquire culture is called ______.

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Correct Answer: Enculturation

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What did cultural materialist Marvin Harris argue about the Jewish taboo on pork?

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Correct Answer: It is a way of adapting to the ecological conditions of the Middle East.

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