Australopithecus afarensis
Southern ape from afar, Ape like face, arched foot
Homo habilis
Handyman, First to develop and use stone tools and the Bronca’s area
Homo ergaster
Working man
Homo erectus
Upright man
homo erectus first to do
Complete upright walking, hunter gatherer, fire, migrate out of Africa
Homo sapien
Man who thinks/wise man, Homo sapiens sapiens and neanderthals
Neanderthals
Hunter gatherer, First to have rituals (ex. Burying dead)
Theory of natural selection
living things must adapt to their environments or they won’t survive
How darwin relates to evolution
Mutation creates descent with modification, Unfavourable mutations are selected against, Reproduction and mutation occur, Favourable mutations more likely to survive and reproduce, which results in evolution
Louis Leakey
Palaeontologist who found more fossils and stone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania and discovered that humans originally came from Africa, and discovered Turkana Boy (homo ergaster)
Jane Goodall
Studied chimps in Tanzania
Dian Fossey
Studied mountain gorillas in Rwanda
Richard B. Lee
Studied the !Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari desert
Significant similarities in chimpanzee, gorilla and human behaviour
Primates, 3D vision, highly developed brain, opposable thumbs, social creatures, capacity for aggression, bipedalism
Cultural anthropology
The study of human beings in different cultural settings around the world
Ethanology
immersing yourself and living with a culture
Cultural Relativism
What’s right in one culture may be wrong in another
Great Apes and Jane Goodall’s discoveries
The apes started off as one group but split off into two and fought each other for territory and one group attacked the other until it was exterminated
Body art
The Maori of New Zealand receive Moko to represent their nobility
Foot binding
The foot was bound by an older female of the family and women with bound feet were considered a good wife, and not complain as shown by having her feet bound and living a life with them.
Mehndi
Aka. henna is a form of temporary skin decoration used in South Asia to bring in positive energy and drive away negative energy, and is commonly used during wedding ceremonies.
Important cultural rituals and beliefs of the !Kung-San people
Celebrate Christmas by slaughtering an ox and sharing it with others, The tradition is to downplay your achievements, for example, when you slaughter a good ox, to say that it was small. This reduces arrogance.
Material culture
Aspects of culture that are real items that exist in the physical world
Non-material culture
Aspects of culture that do not exist in the physical world and instead are transferred through word and actions
Culture connections
Material culture helps to show and represent non-material culture in the real world
Love Bombing
Recruiters are very warm and loving and the recruit is made to feel special and important to the new “family”
Exploitation
Pretends to be friendly to discover hidden weaknesses and hopes and exploits them
Group Pressure
Recruit is constantly surrounded by a group that thin the same which gives them pressure to conform
Critical questions disencouraged
Not allowed to ask questions and told to wait or ignored and obeying becomes the social norm
Isolation
Recruits are constantly surrounded by the cult and kept away from other people in their life
Deprivation
Recruits are kept busy from early morning to late night with little chances to eat and sleep which results in fatigue and listlessness to make them more likely to conform
Guilt
If a recruit expresses doubt, they are made to feel selfish and group confessions destroy self esteem
Personality theory
The concept that the unconscious mind influences personality and is made up of the id, ego, and superego
Id
Natural child-like beliefs
Ego
Balances the Id and Superego
Superego
Manages morals and tries to make the morally correct decisions
Reality and pleasure principles:
Dream interpretation
Dreams are a byproduct of the dreamer's physical and mental state during sleep and by analysing dreams you can realise things such as unconscious desires of the dreamer
Psychoanalysis
The study of the unconscious mind
Free association
the mental process by which one word or image may spontaneously suggest another without any apparent connection to help his patients discover unconscious thoughts and feelings that had been repressed or ignored.
Oedipus complex
The feeling of jealousy due to competition for the attention of a primary caregiver
Oedipal
Son → Mother (attachment)
Elektra
Daughter → Father (attachment)
Oral stage
Birth - 12/18 months, interest in oral gratification
Anal stage
12/18 months - 3 yo Gratification from expelling or withholding feces, coming to understand social standards (ex. potty training)
Phallic stage
3 to 5-6 years old, Discovery of libido, interest in genitals, understanding their gender
Intro/extrovert
Maslow developed the idea that human behaviour was often motivated by opposite tendencies
Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and what needs are focused on at each level)
Physiological needs (Food, water, warmth, rest), Safety needs (Security), Belongingness and Love (Intimate relationships, friends, family), Esteem needs (Prestige and feeling of accomplishment), Self-Actualization (achieving one’s full potential
Karen Horney’s reaction to Freud’s theories
If women have “penis envy” why can’t men have “uterus envy”
Sensation
A physical feeling resulting from something that happens to or comes into contact with the body.
Conditioning
How are we conditioned affects perceptions based on our environment and background because perception is based on past knowledge and experience such as culture and people will have different perceptions of the world based on their background
Rationalisation
Justifying your actions with an excuse rather than admitting a failure or mistake ex. Getting a bad grade on a test because you didn’t study, but blaming it on the test
Denial
Believing a falsehood, rather than accepting reality. ex. An alcoholic saying they are not an alcoholic because they can function throughout the day.
Projection
Accusing others of feeling unpleasant emotions that you feel yourself
Escape
Running away from a problem
Repression
Blocking out thoughts about unpleasant things or experiences
Identification
Acting like somebody else; associating somebody’s accomplishments with your own
Displacement
Expressing feelings towards something or someone not associated with the source of the feelings
Regression
Returning to an earlier way of dealing with frustration; returning to a mindset that required less responsibility
Compensation
Making up for a lack of one thing by achieving something else
Sublimation
Transferring unacceptable behaviours into acceptable ones
Neurosis
organic, developing through stressors, and everybody has a certain degree of it
Psychosis
genetic, not based off your experiences, innate
Mental illness
a disorderly functioning of the mind causing abnormal behaviour
Anxiety disorders
When anxiety becomes severe or prolonged
Generalised anxiety disorder
Anxiety that can occur without a given reason
Phobias
Intense or irrational fear of certain things
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
A persistent, unwanted thought, followed by a tendency to perform an act repeatedly in order to relieve the anxiety
Major depressive disorder
Deeply unhappy and finds little pleasure in life
Bipolar Affective disorder
Extreme mood swings beyond the normal range, manic and depressive
Personality disorders
Affect a person;s ability to function in society, making it difficult to relate to others
Schizophrenic disorders
Distortion of reality, social withdrawal, and disturbances of thought, perception, motor activity and emotions
Substance related disorders
Harmful use of substances that lead to a significant impairment or distress
Classical Conditioning
Learning that occurs when two stimuli are repeatedly paired
Operant Conditioning
Learning that occurs when a response is paired with punishment or reward to modify the behaviour happening
Unconditioned Stimulus
causes a response without any prior learning on the part of the subject
Unconditioned Response
an automatic response to the unconditioned stimulus
Neutral Stimulus
a stimulus that at first elicits no response
Conditioned Stimulus
what the neutral stimulus becomes once paired with the stimulus to provoke the conditioned response
Conditioned Response
an automatic response to the conditioned stimulus
Pavlov
Dogs paired the sound of the bell to the arrival of food
Skinner
Box only giving the rat food when the rat presses the button when the box is green
Watson
Little Albert was conditioned to be afraid of rats through a loud noise paired with it, and eventually the fear of rats was extended to other animals and furry white animals
Structural functionalism
Each part of society serves a specific function
Symbolic interactionism
How individuals learn about their culture and how they subjectively interpret and act upon their social worlds
Conflict theory
Power is the most important factor in social organisation and society is made up of competing groups
Primary
The first agents of socialisation in your immediate circle- parents and family- that shape your behaviour throughout your whole life
Secondary
Other people around you that socialise you such as religion, media, peer groups, school
A hidden curriculum
things taught at school that model a certain set of beliefs and attitudes and endorses specific behaviour in different situations
Identical twins
Even though they have the same genes, most identical twins grow up to become very different and independent people. However when separated at birth and reunited, many of them ended up being similar (ex. Same career, behaviour, personality)
Isolated and feral children development
If they are isolated as children, they may lose the ability to speak and may never properly develop skills such as fine motor skills, formal communication, emotional responses, and more
Feral children
Abandoned children that had no development and who take on the development of the environment
Isolated children
Seperated from society but have developed certain skills
Nuclear family
1-2 parents and unmarried children living together
Extended family
Relatives in addition to parents and unmarried children living together
Blended or reconstituted family
Parents with children from one or more previous marriages or unions
Childless family
A couple
Single parent/lone parent family
A parent (either mother or father) With one or more children
Common law family
Cohabitating, unmarried couple with or without children
Same-sex family
A family that consists of two individuals of the same gender with children