Deck 1: What Is Anthropology?

Question 1

Evidence from anthropological studies of reduced milk consumption by African-American school children in the 1960s suggested it was the result of

A) lactose intolerance.
B) economic stress.
C) poor education.
D) cultural taboos.
E) none of the above

Answer 1

lactose intolerance.

Question 2

To determine where to dig at a site, archaeologists rely of techniques from

A) geology and physical geography.
B) chemistry.
C) physics and chemistry.
D) human geography.
E) mathematics and geology.

Answer 2

geology and physical geography.

Question 3

Medical anthropologists need to understand

A) the economy, diet and patterns of social interaction, as well as attitudes and beliefs regarding health and illness.
B) the health and well being of our prehistoric ancestors.
C) human adaptations to the environment to understand how populations have changed over time.
D) different human cultures and their traditions.
E) technologically advanced human societies.

Answer 3

the economy, diet and patterns of social interaction, as well as attitudes and beliefs regarding health and illness.

Question 4

Traditionally, anthropologists have studied

A) ancient historical texts.
B) non-Western cultures.
C) the spread of European colonialism.
D) the development of new technologies through time.
E) Western civilizations.

Question 5

Ethnologists study ________ but not ________.

A) material culture, culture change
B) political system, economic systems
C) primates, human evolution
D) culture change, hominins
E) hominins, culture change

Question 6

Ethnologists are interested in how cultures change.

Question 7

Individuals who lack the enzyme lactase, which is necessary for breaking down milk sugar, are described as being

A) milk intolerant.
B) lactase intolerant.
C) sugar intolerant.
D) enzyme intolerant.
E) lactose intolerant.

Question 8

Early studies in anthropology in English Canada focused on studies of rural and small-town communities.

Question 9

The field of bioarchaeology draws on both sociocultural anthropology and archaeology.

Question 10

Early Canadian anthropologists focussed their research on

A) Acadian communities in the Maritimes.
B) Metis communities on the prairies.
C) recent immigrants who had settled in the prairie provinces.
D) Native cultures of the Arctic and Northwest Coast.
E) agricultural communities in rural Ontario.

Question 11

The Division of Anthropology within the Geological Survey was established in 1910 by

A) Wilfrid Laurier.
B) Edward Sapir.
C) George Mercer Dawson.
D) Thomas McIlwraith.
E) Jesuit Missionaries.

Question 12

Which of the following is true of theories?

A) They are falsifiable.
B) They are provable.
C) They are the same as hypotheses.
D) They are factual.
E) They are solvable.

Question 13

If the p-value for a given statistical test is 0.06, this means

A) the result is statistically significant.
B) there is a 6% chance that the hypothesis can be accepted.
C) there is less than a 6% chance that the relationship observed is purely accidental.
D) there is a 6% chance that the relationship observed is purely accidental.
E) there is a 94% chance that the relationship observed is purely accidental.

Question 14

The biocultural model recognizes that human biological diversity is linked to environmental adaptation, and that one of humankind's greatest adaptive strategies is

A) language.
B) technology.
C) culture.
D) religion.
E) hunting.

Question 15

What are the two primate suborders?

A) Monkeys and apes.
B) Catarrhines and platyrrhines.
C) Prosimians and anthropoids.
D) Hominids and hominins.
E) Prosimians and apes.

Question 16

If an individual aims to make general explanations of human behaviour everywhere based just on the culture-bound worldview of their own society, they are being

A) anthropological.
B) theoretical.
C) scientific.
D) ethnocentric.
E) ethnological.

Question 17

The term "anthropology" literally means

A) the study of ancient Greeks.
B) the study of primates.
C) the study of ancient humans.
D) the study of humans.
E) the study of societies.

Question 18

The first academic position in anthropology in Canada was created in 1925 at

A) the University of Toronto.
B) McGill University.
C) the University of British Columbia.
D) the University of Ottawa.
E) Laval University.

Question 19

Applied anthropology is explicit in its concern with making anthropological knowledge immediately

A) available on the Internet.
B) passed into law.
C) publishable.
D) profitable.
E) useful.

Question 20

A distinguishing feature of anthropology as a discipline is its approach is more

A) holistic.
B) focused.
C) applied.
D) generalized.
E) practical.

Question 21

The first Homo sapiens emerged approximately 1 million years ago.

Question 22

The statement that water freezes at 0°C is a law.

Question 23

All living peoples belong to one species, Homo sapiens.

Question 24

What are the four sub-fields of anthropology?

Question 25

The biocultural model is of no use in reconstructing early hominid behaviour.

Question 26

Historical linguists deal only with languages and usually languages with a written form.

Question 27

Paleoanthropologists study how and why contemporary human populations vary biologically.

Question 28

Is it valid for anthropologists to infer what our ancestors were like based on observation of behaviours among modern living primates? Why or why not?

Question 29

How human populations have adapted physically to their environmental conditions, is the focus of archaeologists.