Accounting
Anthropology
Archaeology
Art History
Banking
Biology & Life Science
Business
Business Communication
Business Development
Business Ethics
Business Law
Chemistry
Communication
Computer Science
Counseling
Criminal Law
Curriculum & Instruction
Design
Earth Science
Economic
Education
Engineering
Finance
History & Theory
Humanities
Human Resource
International Business
Investments & Securities
Journalism
Law
Management
Marketing
Medicine
Medicine & Health Science
Nursing
Philosophy
Physic
Psychology
Real Estate
Science
Social Science
Sociology
Special Education
Speech
Visual Arts
Social Science
Q:
Blood clotting is an example of positive feedback since the action of the effector amplifies that of the stimulus.
Q:
An integrating center of a negative feedback loop has the function of analyzing information from many different sensors about deviations from a set point and then altering the activity of particular effectors to compensate for the deviation.
Q:
Endocrine gland secretion is often controlled by the nervous system.
Q:
The secretion of many hormones is regulated through negative feedback inhibition.
Q:
Homeostasis is best described as a static, unchanging state of the internal environment.
Q:
____________ mg/100 ml is the approximate normal range of blood glucose concentration after fasting.
A. 0 to 80
B. 50 to 150
C. 75 to 110
D. 90 to 120
Q:
The normal range of arterial blood pH is
A. 6.50-7.50.
B. 7.35-7.45.
C. 6.95-7.05.
D. 7.15-7.25.
Q:
An integrating center sends information to a(n)
A. sensor.
B. effector.
C. brain region.
D. thermostat.
Q:
The endocrine regulation of blood glucose concentration is an example of a(n)
A. antagonistic effector.
B. positive feedback loop.
C. negative feedback loop.
D. Both antagonistic effector and negative feedback loop are correct.
Q:
Negative feedback results in a response that opposes that of the original deviation from normal.
Q:
When a scientist performs measurements in an experiment and does not know if the subject is part of the experimental or the control group, it is known as a _________ measurement.
A. blind
B. qualitative
C. null
D. statistical
Q:
It is NOT possible to determine whether the data collected in an experiment are different between the control and experimental groups unless the scientist employs the use of the mathematical tools of
A. algebra.
B. trigonometry.
C. statistics.
D. graphing.
Q:
A hypothesis is scientific if it
A. supports other hypotheses.
B. can be tested.
C. refutes other hypotheses.
D. uses observational analyses.
Q:
For a theory to be scientific and accepted, it must be based on
A. reproducible data.
B. blind faith.
C. a single hypothesis.
D. the word of a professional scientist.
Q:
Aristotle is considered the father of physiology because he attempted to apply physical laws to the study of human function.
Q:
Whose work brought physiology to be accepted as a true experimental science?
A. Sir Henry Dale
B. Walter Cannon
C. William Harvey
D. John Macleod
Q:
The term homeostasis was coined by Walter Cannon to describe the constancy of the milieu interieur.
Q:
The Nobel Prize was awarded to __________, __________, and ____________ for determining the structure of DNA.
A. Watson, Krebs, Buck
B. Crick, Wilkins, Watson
C. Buck, Axel, Pavlov
D. Krebs, Sperry, Huxley
Q:
The study of disease processes aids in the understanding of normal functions.
Q:
The study of comparative physiology has aided in the development of pharmaceutical drugs for humans.
Q:
The scientific method is only concerned with experimentation.
Q:
Scientific theories are based on a single hypothesis.
Q:
The first step in the scientific method involves the formation of a(n)
A. theory.
B. law.
C. experiment.
D. hypothesis.
Q:
Phase IV clinical drug trials involve testing a drug only on the specific human population who have the condition that the drug is intended to treat.
Q:
____________ trials maximize the number of test participants and include human participants of both sexes, different ethnic groups, and those who have health problems besides the one that the drug is designed to treat.
A. Phase I clinical
B. Phase II clinical
C. Phase III clinical
D. Phase IV clinical
Q:
Which of the following is NOT part of a phase I clinical trial?
A. testing on the target human population
B. testing how the drug is metabolized
C. testing how rapidly the drug is removed from the body
D. testing the most effective administration of the drug
Q:
Physiology
A. emphasizes cause-and-effect mechanisms.
B. includes the fields of chemistry and psychology.
C. ignores the scientific method.
D. ultimately strives to understand the structures of individual cells.
Q:
The study of how disease or injury alters physiological processes is termed
A. comparative physiology.
B. the scientific method.
C. pathophysiology.
D. anatomy.
Q:
How can mass media play a cultural role for those individuals and families leading transnational lives?
Q:
What is the difference between postmodernity and postmodernism? How has postmodernity affected the units of anthropological study?
Q:
How has the community of Newtok, Alaska, been affected by global climate change? What are some of the challenges this community faces in the near future as they try to rebuild?
Q:
How have recent movements regarding the politics of identity with regard to indigenous peoples varied around the world?
Q:
How have indigenous movements, political mobilization, and identity politics affected ethnography?
Q:
In Spanish-speaking Latin America, social scientists and politicians now favor the term indio over indigena when referring to Native Americans.
Q:
The term indigenous people gained legitimacy within international law with the creation in 1982 of the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations.
Q:
Social movements worldwide have adopted the term indigenous people as a self-identifying and political label based on past oppression but are now legitimizing it in the search for social, cultural, and political rights.
Q:
In Latin America, the drive by indigenous peoples for self-identification has emphasized their autochthony, with an implicit call for excluding strangers from their communities.
Q:
Essentialism refers to the process of viewing an identity as established, real, and frozen, so as to hide the historical processes and politics within which that identity developed.
Q:
Identities are not fixed; they are fluid and multiple. People seize on particular, sometimes competing, self-labels and identities, depending on context.
Q:
How can the perspective of an ethnographer, who carries out research at the local level of communities, contribute to large-scale environmental concerns such as climate change and deforestation?
Q:
What is environmental anthropology? What can be its contribution to addressing environmental threats around the world?
Q:
What are some of the arguments for and against the interpretation of the mass media as forms of cultural imperialism?
Q:
TV programming that is culturally alien tends to outperform native programming when the alien programming comes from the United States, Great Britain, or France.
Q:
Forces influencing production and consumption are no longer restricted by national boundaries.
Q:
Diaspora refers to the hegemonic policy of dominators to isolate individuals who publicly resist from the rest of the population.
Q:
Postmodernism refers to the breakdown of traditional categories, standards, and boundaries in favor of a more fluid, context-dependent set of identities.
Q:
Ethnoecology is any society's set of environmental practices and perceptionsthat is, its cultural model of the environment and its relation to people and society.
Q:
Development projects usually fail when they try to replace indigenous institutions with culturally alien concepts.
Q:
When people are asked to give up the basis of their livelihood, they usually comply, especially if they are paid money.
Q:
The spread of environmentalism may expose radically different notions about the rights and values of plants and animals versus humans. Fortunately, it is clear to everyone that certain animal rights trump other rights.
Q:
Worldwide, concern about environmental and technological risks is more developed in groups that are less endangered by those risks.
Q:
Contemporary, applied ecological anthropologists work to plan and implement policies aimed at environmental preservation. They also advocate for people who are at risk, actually or potentially. One of the roles for today's environmental anthropologist is to assess the extent and nature of risk perception and to harness that awareness to combat environmental degradation.
Q:
Deforestation helps cool the planet by allowing more sunlight to be reflected back into space.
Q:
Although acculturation can be applied to any case of cultural contact and change, the term most often has described Westernization, the positive influence of Western expansion that has spread democratic and capitalistic values to those less fortunate.
Q:
Diseases that spread from animals to humans are known as zoonotic diseases.
Q:
Modern technology plays an important role in both facilitating cultural imperialism and resisting it.
Q:
________ describes the process of viewing an identity as established, real, and frozen, so as to hide the historical processes and politics within which that identity developed.
A. Essentialism
B. Marketing
C. Autochthony
D. Patrimony
E. Fluidity
Q:
Cultural forces are indigenized when native traditions are presented to and appreciated by the former colonialists, who acknowledge these forces as indigenous or native.
Q:
Identities are
A. fixed by both genotype and phenotype.
B. never dependent on context.
C. not fixed; they are fluid and multiple.
D. fictions.
E. creative constructs and therefore of little real consequence.
Q:
Mass media can play an important role is constructing and maintaining national and ethnic identities.
Q:
________ is any society's set of environmental practices and perceptionsthat is, its cultural model of the environment and its relation to people and society.
A. Ethnoecology
B. Ecological imperialism
C. Indigenized
D. Ecological anthropology
E. Essentialism
Q:
Although anthropologists may be interested in contemporary global issues such as climate change, their perspective is necessarily limited to the local scale of their fieldwork.
Q:
Scientists prefer the term climate change to global warming. Climate change points out that, beyond rising temperatures, there have been changes in sea levels, precipitation, storms, and ecosystem effects.
Q:
Global warming is primarily due to increased solar radiation, not human activity.
Q:
Cultural meaning is
A. imposed by a text.
B. locally created.
C. inherent in a text.
D. produced by a text, not from it.
E. determined only by the author.
Q:
What Caribbean people did Grasmuck and Pessar characterize as living "between two islands?"
A. Dominicans
B. Puerto Ricans
C. Cubans
D. Jamaicans
E. Trinidadians
Q:
Anthropology teaches us that the adaptive responses of humans can be more flexible than those of other species because our main adaptive means are
A. biocultural.
B. ethnocentric.
C. chosen through free will.
D. sociocultural.
E. anthropomorphic.
Q:
To Arjun Appadurai (1990), "________" describes the linkages in the modern world that have both enlarged and erased old boundaries and distinctions.
A. postmodern
B. ethnocentric
C. translocal
D. essentialized
E. diasporic
Q:
Which of the following is NOT true of postmodernism?
A. The term originally referred to a style and movement in architecture.
B. It rejects rules, geometric order, and austerity.
C. It has a clear and functional design or structure.
D. It draws on a diversity of styles from different times and places.
E. It extends value well beyond classic, elite, Western cultural forms.
Q:
________ refers to the blurring and breakdown of established canonsrules, standards, categories, distinctions, and boundaries.
A. Chaos
B. Entropy
C. Postmodern
D. Agoraphobia
E. Diaspora
Q:
Social movements worldwide have adopted which term as a self-identifying and political label based on past oppression but now legitimizing a search for social, cultural, and political rights?
A. indio
B. indigenous people
C. mestizo
D. autochthon
E. freedom fighter
Q:
In Spanish-speaking Latin America, social scientists and politicians favor which term over indio (Indian), the colonial term that the Spanish and Portuguese conquerors used to refer to the native inhabitants of the Americas?
A. indigena (indigenous person)
B. civilian
C. citizen
D. cultural patrimony
E. autochthon
Q:
The last 30 years have seen a dramatic shift in the conditions of indigenous peoples in Latin America, where the drive by indigenous peoples for self-identification has emphasized all of the following EXCEPT
A. political reforms involving a restructuring of the state.
B. their cultural distinctiveness.
C. an implicit call for excluding strangers.
D. limited self government.
E. sustainable development and political representation.
Q:
Unlike indigenous peoples, the term ________ highlights the prominence that the exclusion of strangers has assumed in day-to-day politics worldwide and has been claimed by majority groups in Europe.
A. indigenous people
B. autochthon
C. mestizo
D. Euroindio
E. freedom fighter
Q:
Cases of local communities using modern technology to preserve and revise their traditions
A. are examples of hidden ethnocide.
B. are becoming more common.
C. contradict Gramsci's theory of hegemony.
D. are becoming increasingly rare, due to the cost of this technology.
E. suggest that modern technology is always an agent of cultural imperialism.
Q:
Which is the single greatest obstacle to slowing climate change?
A. the growing population of the poorer nations in the world
B. proper climatic changes
C. having scientists decide on a definition of climate change
D. meeting energy needs, particularly in energy-hungry countries such as the United States, China, and India
E. a lack of data portraying the effects of climate change
Q:
Anthropology has always been concerned with how environmental forces influence humans, and how human activities affect the biosphere and the Earth itself. The 1950s through the 1970s witnessed the emergence of an area of study known as cultural ecology or ecological anthropology. This field
A. focused on how cultural beliefs and practices help human populations adapt to their environment.
B. studied etic perspectives on human-environment relationships.
C. is no longer relevant, because it dealt with research models that were either regional or local, but not global enough to account for the changes caused by climate change.
D. has limited present value, because it is not scientifically rigorous enough to address environmental problems.
E. studied human-environment relations as cultural constructions and analyzed them as "texts."
Q:
Because of global climate change, arctic landscapes and ecosystems are changing rapidly and perceptibly, as the residents of Newtok, Alaska, can attest. With the land upon which they have built their homes slowly melting and sinking, they have appealed to the state and federal governments for assistance in helping them cover the costs of moving their town to a different location. Ironically,
A. the land upon which the Alaskan state government buildings are located is also melting.
B. the residents of Newtok have discovered oil on their land, making their appeal for funds less convincing.
C. a senator from Alaska has a vacation home in Newtok, Alaska, and so is personally committed to addressing the predicament of the town.
D. decades ago, the U.S. government mandated that they and other Alaskan natives abandon a nomadic life based on hunting and fishing for sedentism.
E. the economic activity of the town of Newtok is extremely polluting and thus a big contributor to the environmental changes that have turned its residents into the first climate change refugees in the United States.
Q:
Today's ecological anthropology, also known as environmental anthropology, attempts not only to understand environmental problems but also to
A. find solutions, acknowledging that ecosystems management involves multiple levels.
B. prescribe top-down solutions to ecological problems.
C. work closely with state agencies, among whom they do most of their ethnography, to promote institutional change.
D. contribute to development projects that sometimes, out of necessity, replace indigenous institutions with culturally alien concepts.
E. promote the concepts of environmental rights, even at the expense of cultural rights.
Q:
Westernization is a form of what kind of cultural change?
A. exodus
B. imperialism
C. acculturation
D. enculturation
E. migration