SOSC303FA2008TESTOne
SOSC 303 on Friday September 26, 2008
1
The unit survival (or adaptation) is organism plus ______; we are learning by bitter experience that the organism which destroys this eventually destroys itself
evolution
other individuals
culture
environment
2
The film Primitive People (dealing with the Mewites of northern Australia) pointed out:
their normal community life.
burial rites.
a wallaby hunt.
all-of-the-above!
3
The science of placing the "chain" or "tree" of the fossil pieces together is known as:
archaeology.
cultural anthropology.
paleoanthropology.
none-of-the-above.
4
The Guidebook asks the question, "Why do men and women communicate so differently? It may be something ______."
in the cultural environment.
in the water.
in the social environment.
in our genes.
5
According toe Spradley & McCurdy (S&M), marriage within a designated social unit is defined as:
incest.
exogamy.
endogamy.
polygyny.
6
The idea of "multiple intelligences" has been put forward by:
Jean Piaget.
Jerome Bruner.
Howard Gardner.
Richard Leakey.
7
According to George C. Williams (Guidebook), an overwhelming amount of preventable disease in modern societies results from the devastating effects of sweets and sugar.
TRUE
FALSE
8
In writing about Easter Island (in S&M), Jared Diamond suggests that Easter Island declined because of gradual environmental destruction.
TRUE
FALSE
9
The shared knowledge of which people usually are unaware and do not communicate verbally is known as tacit culture.
TRUE
FALSE
10
The Guidebook points out that Paul Bloom (Yale university) suggested that humans have a dedicated language ability from the start and language capacity may be built into the human brain.
TRUE
FALSE
11
The Guidebook pointed out that the transition from hunting to agriculture had very little impact on the development of human culture.
TRUE
FALSE
12
The task of discovering and describing a single particular culture is known as ethnography.
TRUE
FALSE