HSP Exam Review - Terms #1

Relationship between two or more people that is based on common ancestry, marriage or adoption

Social behaviour by an individual that may be contrary to their beliefs but is done nonetheless.

Social system inwhich positions are given to people according to individual ability or worth

An area of study that looks at the effect on culture and human behaviour

Preserved remains of biological matter

Type of learning where a once neutral stimulus comes to produce a response after pairing with a conditioned stimulus.

The position that an individual holds in society based on their accomplishments.

A community in which the group is more important than its individual members

Mental processes in the brain associated with learning.

Humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers - client centred role

Process by which one changes one's thoughts, feelings and behaviours to meet the expections of a group

Physical characteristics and aspects of personality and behaviour that are passed down genetically

A violation of society's norms and accepted standards.

Study of small grups and individuals within society

Approach of sociology that analyses social systems on a large scale

Discrimination based on assumptions about a person's ability or disability

Universal symbols that tend to reappear over time; includes models of people, behaviours and personalities

Study of the origins and cultures of different races and people

Form of psychotherapy that tries to help peole find the aim and meaning of their life

Believing that one's own culture is superior to all

Systemic or personal actions that discriminate against persons according to socio-economic level

The process of learning how to plan the way to behave in new situations.

The ego's way of distorting reality to deal with anxiety

Discrimination based against invidual or group because of their age

Act of treating groups or individuals unfairly based on race, gender or common characteristics

Subcultures that reject the most popular values and norms

An official periodic count of a population including such information as age, sex, education.

The belief that a person's behaviour is the result of their disposition or exteral situations.

Written account of culture

The trait of habitually walking on two legs.

Large number of people at an event who display emotion and excitement

Human or human ancesor

An individual sense of being male or female

Concept in psychology used to explain why the larger number in a group, the less likely people are to get involved

Effects of collective pressue on the decision making abilities of individual members in a group

Total system of ideas, values, behaviour and attitudes of a society commonly shared by members

Freud's term for the instinctual part of the mind

The meeting of two or more cultural groups and the resulting cultural changes to each group.

Freuds term for the rational part of the mind

The shared inherited pool of memories from our ancestors