Exam 4: The Process of Enculturation: Psychological and Cognitive Anthropology

A basketball player's knowledge of where he or she is relative to the basket would be an example of instinct, as defined by anthropologists.

Anthropologist Melford Spiro uses a neo-Freudian approach to understanding human behavior. What conclusions has he drawn from his research?

Value judgments concerning homosexuality are based on:

According to Derek Freeman, most Samoans had puritanical views towards sexuality.

Psychological anthropologists differ from psychologists in that their research focuses on:

Psychological anthropologists tend to study people in their own societies.

Most anthropologists have come to agree that human behavior __________.

Do you agree with the theory that humans do not have closed instincts? Why or why not?

An example of one way in which humans can make decisions to ignore or override basic needs would be:

The childhood familiarity hypothesis proposes that children raised together are more likely to become sexually involved as adults.

Humans are considered to have no closed instincts because they:

Claude Lévi-Strauss, in a book entitled The Savage Mind (1966), proposed that:

The "windigo psychosis" is characterized by:

Most modern anthropologists are of the opinion that individual human behavior is:

Cross-cultural studies of human sexual desire have revealed that:

Define Freud's concepts of the id, ego, and superego. Do you agree with his ideas about unconscious human thought? Why or why not?