A human paleontologist would be least interested in: 

a. primates

b. human evolution

c. human genetics

d. fossil evidence of humans

An ethnographer would:

a. work in the fiel for long periods of time

b. work with applied anthropologists in developing foreign aid projects

c. make many cross cultural comparisons

An ethnohistorian would:

a. study only past cultures, much as archaeologists do

b. study the ways in which cultures have changed over time

Which of the following is not usually considered a sub field of anthropology?

a. archaeology

b. physical anthropology

c. anthropological linguistics

d. applied anthropology

a human paleontologist is least likely to depend on studies carried out in the field of:

a. comparative primate behavior

b. comparative anatomy

c. general vertebrate paleontology

d. sociolinguistics

which of the following would not be considered part of cultural anthropology?

a. archaeology

be. anthropological linguistics

c. ethnology

d. human paleontology

Anthropologists believe that culture is:

a. inherited

b. learned and shared

c. transmitted only form one group to another

d. only a small part of how people learn their behaviors

The attitude of cultural relativism is: 

a. discouraged by most anthropologsits today

b. impeded by the belief called early evolutionsim

b. held by most people in the world today 

Emile Durkheim stressed that culture is something _______ us exerting a strong ______ power on us.

a. inside/coercive

b. outside/limiting

c. outisde/coercive

The fact that monkeys and apes can learn new behaviors from each other:

a. does not necessarily mean that they have culture, since their social life may be purely instinctual

b. suggests that they have culture

c. suggests they are ancestral to modern humans

Which type of behavior would most appropriately be studied with a random sample of individuals?

a. public behavior

b. unconscious behavior

c. private behavior

d. both b and c

Why would !Kung individuals in the Kalahari Desert give away all of the animals they kill every day?

a. they are really nice people who care for eachother

b. keeping the meat to one's self would be wasteful because it would rot

c. spiritual beings show them the true way to live in communal harmony

a complex system of spoken, symbolic communication that we call language:

a. probably originated in a few societies 20,000 years ago

b. has existed in every human society ever discovered

c. probably originated about the same time as agriculture

The frequency distribution of behavior patterns in a group very often takes form of a(an):

a. bell shaped curve

b. straight line graph

c. S shaped curve

behavioral ecology is like cultural ecology in that it: 

a. shares the idea that natural selection can operate on the behavioral or social characteristics of populations and not just on their physical traits.

b. places a great deal of importance on genes

c. emphasizes that behavior must be adaptive in evolutionary terms

Cultural ecology focuses mostly on what biologists would call:

a. group selection

b. individual selection

c. individual behavior

d. group behavior

In contrast to cultural ecology, behavioral ecology focuses mostly on what biologists would call:

a. individual selection

b. group selection

c. individual behavior

d. group behavior

A theoretical construct is something:

a. that can be shown to exist

b. ephemeral and unknowable

c. that cannot be observed or verified directly

A random sample is done inside of a:

a. population

b. sampling universe

c. society

d. small group

Unlike the humanist, the goal of the scientist is:

a. interpretation

b. evocation

c. testing interpretations to see if they are wrong

d. objectivity

An explanation is an answer to:

a. a "what" question

b. a "why" question

c. a "how" question

d. all of the above

In the physical scientces, a law is a:

a. relationship between two or more variable whose existence is suggested by repeated observation

b. an association or relationship that is accepted by almost all scientists

a statistical association is: 

a. a relationship between two variables that may be meaningful and is unlikely to be due to chance

b. an organization devoted to the documentation of numerical information from different societies

c. one kind of theory

A description of the procedure used to measure a variable is known as a(an):

a. hypothesis

b. operational definition

c. theoretical construct

The archive known as the Human Relations Area Files:

a. is located at Harvard University

b. specializes in providing information on social problems in societies aroudn the world

c. is an ever-growing collection of ethnographic books and articles that have been indexed and cross-references to make them easier to consult

Statistical tests of significance can help us:

a. measure variables

b. prove theories

c. determine the level of importance we should attach to a theoretical construct

d. determine whether our results are attributable to chance.

Which of the folloring is most likely to depend on data collected firsthand?

a. cross-cultural researcher

b. ethnographer

c. cross-historical researcher

____ is the analysis of the relationship between a culture and its environment:

a. ecology

b. cultural ecology

d. biological ecology

The school of thought known as ____ assumes that external fores explain the way a society changes and adapts:

a. cultural ecology

b. psychological anthropology

d. political economy

a. cultural ecology

Theories are:

a. ideas which explain untested hypotheses

b. explanations of laws and statistcal associations

How a researcher describes the procedure that will be followed to measure a variable is:

a. the theory

b. the operational definition

One disadvantage of the cross-cultural approach is that it:

a. can test only those explantions for which the required information is avialable in ethnographies

b. does not allow for the statistical evaluation of data

In contrast to historical studies, cross-cultural studies ahve the advantage of:

a. being replicated more easitly

b. being more easily generalized in a wide range of societies

c. does not allow for the statictical evaluation of data

some antrhopologists have argued that language as we know it developed only with the emergence of modern-looking humans about:

a. 750,000 years ago

b. 500,000

c. 200,000

d. 100,000

Which statement best describes the spoken language of the Haitians of the Caribbean?

a. the elite speak French, and the masses speak a degraded version of French called patois

b. All Haitians speak Haitian Creole, and the official language of government, business, and eduction is French.

c. 92% of the people speak French consistently, in order to compete for scarce jobs.

A _____ is a sound to a linguist?

a. phone

b. phoneme

c. morph

d. morpheme

The smallest unit of language that has meaning is a:

a. phone

b. phoneme

c. morph

d. morpheme

A set of related sounds is known as a:

a. phone

b. phoneme

c. morph

d. morpheme

A pidgin language is:

a. is a simplified language based on the language of a dominant goup

b. is a Creole language to which additional, key grammatical forms have been added. 

A Creole language is a:

a. simplified language based on the language of a dominant gorup

b. pidgin language to which additional, key grammatical forms have been added. 

Compared ot people in simpler societies, people in complex societies:

a. commonly can give a larger number of general, or life-form, terms for plants and animals

b. commonly have the same number of general terms for plants, but more terms for specific plants

c. usually have more names for specific plants, but the same nubmer of general plant terms

The Sapir Whorf hypothesis states that:

a. societies are heavily influenced by their languages

b. language is a force in its own right, and it affects how individual sin a society percieive and conceive realisty

c. culture is the molder of language: languages reflect the values, attitudes, and beliefs of the society

The slightly varying sounds that are the building blocks of language are called:

An example of a bound morpheme in English is:

a. the word "doghouse"

b. the phrase in the "dog house"

c. the s in the word "dogs"

The word "higher" contains:

a. two bound morphemes

b. one bound morepheme and one free morpheme

c. one free morpheme and one phoneme