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| The belief that one’s own culture is superior to another is called |
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| Which of the following is not one of the four branches of anthropology? |
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| As part of your job, you may study the frequency of blood types in human populations, or watch the behavior of monkeys and apes, or dig 4,000 years burial grounds in what is now northern Vietnam. You are a/an: |
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| According to linguistic anthropologists people who speak languages that strongly distinguish the present and the future are better prepared for the future because____. |
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| They accumulate more wealth and they are better able to maintain their health. |
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| As discussed in class, archaeological research: The Garbage Dump Project demonstrated that what people say and what they do can differ dramatically. For instance, investigators found that |
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| The amount of beer consumed, according to empty cans in the trash, was far higher than people claimed. |
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| Physical anthropological research |
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| focuses on humans as biological organisms, evolution, and human variation. |
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Cross-cultural analyses of ethnomedicines reveal that health problems and treatments are always
conceptualized within _________ |
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| Anthropologists doing fieldwork typically involve themselves in many different experiences.They try to investigate not just one aspect of culture (such as the political system) but how all aspects relate to each other (for example, how the political system fits with economic institutions, religious beliefs, etc.). This perspective is called |
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| From skeletal remains, the forensic anthropologist cannot establish which of following? |
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| In-depth descriptive studies of specific cultures are called |
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| Using the principle of cultural relativism, anthropology |
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negates racial and cultural inferiority/superiority.
views cultures as unique adaptations to their own particular circumstances. |
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| What is the primary purpose of practicing applied anthropology? |
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| It allows the use of anthropological knowledge to solve practical problems. |
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| "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" chronicles the conflict between: |
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| The culture of biomedicines and Hmong cultural beliefs |
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| Chronic, stigmatized and incurable diseases such as cancer or HIV demonstrate that: |
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| Social responses to maladies have important consequences |
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| Although her doctor's considered Lia Lee's condition to be epilepsy, her Hmong parents believed it was |
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| she was possessed by a spirit with healing powers. |
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| Which of the following was a problem in the medical treatment of Lia Lee, a Hmong girl with epilepsy: |
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Her parents thought the medications she took were making her worse.
The doctors misdiagnosed her condition. |
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| Which of the following is NOT an assumption typically made in biomedicine: |
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| Biomedicine is a cultural creation, not an objective system. |
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| Dyslexia exemplifies how cultures produce different consequences of health maladies because: |
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| People with dyslexia face serious obstacles in literate societies, but in cultures without writing it is not a problem. |
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| Sociogenic diseases involve |
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diseases caused by social factors such as behaviors.
social behaviors that affect our genes.
genes that are causes of social diseases. |
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| In the U.S., sociogenic diseases account for: |
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| The more predominant causes of death |
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| Conceptions of something being wrong with us, a malady, can derive from: |
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Our social relations with others.
The environment.
Supernatural or religious beliefs |
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| Biomedical diagnosis involves primarily taking into account which of the following kinds of factors |
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| Which one of the following is true regarding the social/cultural explanations of suicide |
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Suicide is structural in origin.
Suicide rates are higher at times of peace than in times of war.
Suicide rates were higher among men than women. |
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| How the DSM (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual) has treated homosexuality demonstrates that |
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| There are political and cultural factors that influence what is included as a disease. |
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| Often less severe in non-industrialized societies that have their own perceptions and treatments. |
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| The subjective and personal experience of having a disease is |
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| The politics of medicine affected Lia Lee's case in which of the following ways: |
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| Lia Lee was taken away from her parents based on the recommendation of her doctor |
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| In class the following is defined as a reversible response to exposure over a period of time? |
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| the average age individuals born in a given year can expect to live. |
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| A stigma associated with health problems in our society implies that |
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| the individual is responsible for his or her own health. |
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| The concept of medicalization includes |
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| defining normal biological events, such as childbirth or menopause, as medical problems. |
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| Which of the following is the most accurate concerning the birthing house in Nampossela when Kris Holloway arrived there? |
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| The birthing house was in such a bad shape it could not be used during the rainy season. |
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| Dr. Lee, a medical anthropologist, is fascinated by the Aymara physiological adaptation to the Altiplano. She uses what medical anthropological theory? |
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| Following a brutal physical attack and rape, the victim may quickly ____ their physical wounds, but may take months, years or longer to ____ emotionally and psychologically |
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| Which of the following contributory causes of health/disease is not a focus of critical medical anthropology? |
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| Treating the effects of poverty on health with pills is referred to as |
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| gives many patients coping mechanisms. |
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| The placebo effect may occur because: |
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the patient believes the treatment will work.
the doctor believes the treatment will work. |
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| A prominent feature of Western medical school training, according to critical medical anthropology is |
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sleep deprivation
patient objectification
dehumanization |
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| An example of the interpretivist approach in medical anthropology is |
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| good trusting relations with physicians and medical establishment. |
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| The "thrifty genotype" explanation for the higher rate of diabetes among Native Americans is: |
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| it was an adaptation to cycles of having lots of food and having very little food. |
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| is typical of modern societies |
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| The majority of treatment for health conditions occurs in which of the following sectors: |
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| Which of the following is the general term used for Mexican folk healers: |
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| Biomedicine is the dominant health sector in the United States because: |
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| for a long period of time professional medical organizations legally excluded other health practioners from practice. |
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| Community healing is mostly effective because |
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| people’s solidarity and group sessions may support mental and physical health |
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| Expressions/maxims such as “feed a cold, starve a fever” and "cold as cucumber” demonstrate |
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| the presence and practice of humoral healing in the United states. |
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| A person having surgery performed on the wrong side of the body or death of patients because of illnesses contracted in the hospital is? |
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| According to Jared Diamond, the techniques utilized in paleopathology research provide evidence that |
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| agriculture was the worst mistake. |
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| The term "medical pluralism" refers to the |
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| presence of multiple health systems within a society. |
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| Humoral healing systems are based on |
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| a philosophy and practice that seeks balance among various bodily fluids and forces. |
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| The Ju/'hoansi of the Kalahari desert have a healing system that is |
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| The term "complementary medicine" is often used instead of "alternative medicine" because: |
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| The treatments are used simultaneously with biomedical treatments, not as an alternative to biomedical treatments. |
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