Who Are You?
Curious About Culture
Radical Research
Let's Get Physical
All Mixed Up!
100
His Theory of Evolution was described in his book The Origin of Species.
Who was Charles Darwin?
100
This is the tendency to view one's own culture as being superior.
What is ethnocentrism?
100
This is put forward as a basis of argument, discussion or proof.
What is a hypothesis?
100
This is one trait humans share with other primates.
What are...(answers may vary) -opposable thumbs? -a large capacity to learn and think? -children remain dependent for a long period of time? -depend on a group for survival (social creatures) -a capacity for aggression and defence of territory?
100
Bikers, runners, Trekkies, gangs, and the homeless are all examples of this.
What are subcultures?
200
Her groundbreaking research highlighted numerous similarities between human beings and chimpanzees.
Who is Jane Goodall?
200
Clothing, transportation, food, and shelter are all examples of this.
What is material culture?
200
This is the fifth and final step of the inquiry process/model.
What is draw a conclusion?
200
This is the term for the ability to walk upright over long distances (a human trait that primates and other animals do not share).
What is bipedalism?
200
This is the application of Darwin's theory of natural selection to the social world - where people believe that those considered less intelligent or less aggressive would ultimately be replaced or conquered.
What is social darwinism?
300

The largest species of primate, this gargantuan creature stood nearly 10 feet tall. 

Who is the Gigantopithecus

300

Name 3 of the branches of anthropology we have (or will be!) studying in this unit. 

What are archaeology, linguistics,  ethnology, forensic, biological, and primatolgy?

300
This is a controlled environment where tests are conducted to find out how one factor is related to another.
What is an experiment?
300
This is one way in which "race" has negatively impacted humanity.
What is... (answers will vary) -war? -genocide? -slavery? -assimilation? -taking of land?
300

Name two of the four key terms of Globalization we discussed last week

What is Homogenization, Assimilation, Integration, and Hybridization?

400
While he was digging in Ethiopia in 1974, he found almost 40% of a skeleton (that was given the name Lucy),the first one of its type that could be easily reconstructed.
Who was Donald Johanson?
400
This is the belief that all cultures should be respected for developing ways to survive and for meeting the challenges of their environment.
What is cultural relativism?
400
These are three things a researcher should do when creating a sample survey questionnaire.
What are... (answers will vary) -assure confidentiality? -thank the participant? -ask one question at a time? -ask objective questions? -give specific choices for responses?
400
In 2001, the human genome project revealed that every person shares this percent of the same genetic code. (To be deemed as having answered correctly, I will allow a range of 1%.)
What is 99.9% of the same genetic code?
400

The behaviours and habits most associated with the status quo; to deviate from these is seen as strange. 

What are norms?

500
He named the species australopithecus africanus after recognizing a skull as being of a previously unknown species that had many traits of a human being but a brain the size of a primate's.
Who was Raymond Dart?
500
Margaret Mead studied this in three different cultures in the Pacific Islands.
What is... -gender roles? -nature vs. nurture?
500
This branch of cultural anthropology is another term for participant observation.
What is ethnography?
500
This is the country where Jane Goodall as well as Louis and Mary Leakey conducted research in the field of physical anthropology.
What is Tanzania?
500

This test was used by researchers to determine the intelligence of Apes. Subjects had to not only recognize a pattern of colours and shapes, but also know when a pattern could change. We ourselves attempted this in class!

What is the Wiscosin Card Sorting Test?

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