Showing posts with label 2020 LET REVIEWER SOCIAL STUDIES - Anthropology Part 1. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 10, 2020

LET REVIEWER SOCIAL STUDIES - Anthropology Part 1


1. Which of the following pieces of evidence supports the theory of evolution by natural selection?
a) Humans and chimpanzees share more than 98% of their genetic material
b) Various species exhibit similar, but not identical, morphological features, including centralized nervous system and bilateral symmetry
c) The discovery of multiple hominin and hominid fossils in Africa that share some traits with humans, and some traits with other modern apes
d) The survival of dark-colored speckled moths in late 1800's Great Britain.
e) All of the above

2. Which of the following is not a mechanism of cultural change?
a) Diffusion
b) The Media
c) Globalization
d) Independent Invention
e) Acculturation

3. A group of European settlers moves to Australia and begins interbreeding with the local population, introducing new alleles into the genetic makeup of the local population. This is an example of _____________.
a) Gene flow
b) Sexual selection
c) Fixation
d) Stabilizing selection
e) Random genetic drift

4. Which of these is NOT a characteristic of culture?
a) It is learned
b) It is shared
c) It is innate
d) It is symbolic
e) It is integrated

5. The anthropological term for the process by which culture traits are spread from one culture to another through direct long term contact is:
a) Ethnocentrism
b) Enculturation
c) Emic
d) Holism
e) Acculturation

6. Which of the following is not an etic explanation of a cultural practice?
a) Someone suggesting altitude affects a body's adaption during development
b) Someone explaining colds are caused by being exposed to bad weather or cold air
c) Someone explaining Thanksgiving is one of many postharvest festivals practiced across the world
d) Someone suggesting anorexia spread quickly in Hong Kong due to the influence of Western media
e) Someone using "garbology" to explain what a people did, not what they think they did

7. What is meant by focal vocabulary?
a) A language's meaning system
b) Set of words describing particular domains of experience
c) A language's dictionary or set of names for things, events, actions, and qualities
d) Speech sounds
e) Arrangement and order of words in phrases and sentences

8. Holism refers to:
a) The comparative study of cultures
b) An approach in anthropology that parallels participant observation
c) A focus on the small details of culture
d) The study of the whole of the human condition
e) An adaptive change that occurred in early humans

9. Which of the following is NOT an ethnographic technique?
a) Using experts on particular aspects of local life as a consultant
b) Understanding kinship, descent, and marriage by looking at a culture's genealogical history
c) Learning a culture by participating in social practices and observing the culture over time
d) Talking to members of a culture to find out more information and even life histories
e) All of the above are examples of ethnographic techniques

10. A scientific theory is best described as:
a) A guess or hunch formulated without prior knowledge to explain something
b) A way to explain unknowable phenomena before collecting observable evidence
c) A set of ideas formulated by reasoning from known facts to explain something
d) A suggested, but as yet unverified, explanation for phenomena
e) None of the above