SOSC303FA2006TESTOne
SOSC 303 EXAM I on FRIDAY 22 September 2006.
1
The task of discovering and describing a single particular culture is known as:
anthropology.
archaeology.
ethnology.
ethnography.
2
In the Guidebook it was written that people and their languages are always on the move. Even before the colonization of the past few centuries, many languages were spoken far from their homelands, because of:
trade.
trade and war.
migration.
all-of-the-above.
3
The Guidebook points out that the process of differential survival and reproduction that results in changes in gene frequencies and in the characteristics that the genes encode is termed:
a mutation.
evolution.
natural selection.
genetic drift.
4
Again, the Guidebook points out that "______ is a systematic integrated outlook in regard to the nature of the process whereby people relate to their environments in such a way as to enhance their ability to use both themselves and their environments more effetively."
Environmental determinism
A philosophical outlook
A learning theory
An evolutionary approach
5
As early as _______ the Jesuit scholar José de Acosta, who lived and traveled widely in South America, proposed that native Americans were descended from people who had migrated from _____,
1492 - Siberia.
1589 - Europe
1776 - Europe.
1589 - Siberia.
6
It has been mentioned frequently that the "first" pre-Homo sapiens species to leave Africa was:
Australopithecus ("Taung").
Cromagnon man.
Homo erectus.
Neanderthal man.
7
Jerome Bruner was a gifted educator who saw "learning" as involving the acquisition of new information.
TRUE
FALSE
8
Marriage within a designated social unit is known as "exogamy."
TRUE
FALSE
9
Scientific evidence is mounting that music may be as powerful a food for the brain as for the soul.
TRUE
FALSE
10
The Guidebook points out that Neil Postman argues that all disciplines ought to be taught as if they were history.
TRUE
FALSE
11
To some extent, language appears to be innate to Homo sapiens.
TRUE
FALSE
12
In traditional times, the Bushmen of the Kalahari were a society led by a council of elders.
TRUE
FALSE