SOSC303FA2005TESTOne

SOSC 303 EXAM I on September 23, 2005.
1 Why do men and women communicate so differently? It may be something ______."
in the cultural environment.
in the social environment.
in the water.
in our genes.
2 Among the Yanomamo, the following took place:
alliances.
trading.
feasts and trading.
alliances, trading, and feasts.
3 Perhaps Charles Darwin (1809-1882) was most famous in the 19th century for:
Being the first individual to come up with the idea of "evolution."
Developing the idea of "uniformitarianism" (which was then applied to biology).
Presenting a substantial amount of evidence to demonstrate the idea of evolution (through natural selection) for the scientists and educated individuals of the times.
All-of-the-above!
4 An idea that is a mixture of belief and feeling that one's own way of life is desirable and actually superior to others is known as:
anthropology.
natural selection.
ethnocentrism.
religion.
5 According to George C. Williams (Guidebook), an overwhelming amount of preventable disease in modern societies results from the devastating effects of ______.
acculturation.
sweets and sugars.
a high-fat-diet.
television advertising.
6 The science of placing the "chain" or "tree" of the fossil pieces together is known as:
Applied Anthropology.
Biological Anthropology.
Cultural Anthropology.
Paleoanthropology.
7 In certain Australian clans, women were elected to leadership positions. 
TRUE
FALSE
8 It is believe by many researchers that Homo erectus was the first pre-Homo sapiens species to leave Africa.
TRUE
FALSE
9 Jerome Bruner sees two basic mental processes underlying all of intellectual development and he calls these processes assimilation and accomodation.
TRUE
FALSE
10 The way people characteristically look out on the universe is known as religion.
TRUE
FALSE
11 Any teacher who can be replaced by a computer deserves to be!
TRUE
FALSE
12 Anthropology provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today.
TRUE
FALSE