Anthropology Unit 2 Test.txt

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• Images of Men and Women in the Media: 10 Female Messages
• 1. What really counts in getting ahead are good looks and personality, not brains.
• 2. Real beauty comes from the products we buy.
• 3. School is boring and a waste of time.
• 4. Women can always rely on men for financial support.
• 5. Boys will be boys and that's the way women like them.
• 6. Feminism is irrelevant and young women shouldn't take it too seriously.
• 7. When it comes to men, other women can't be trusted.
• 8. Males need more freedom than females.
• 9. Women should accept the fact that men sometimes need to use force to get their way.
• 10. A woman's beauty and value decrease when she gets old.

• 1. "Real" men don't show their emotions.
• 2. "Real" men are assertive and don't waste time discussing problems.
• 3. Competition is natural to men.
• 4. To get ahead in life, you have to depend on your brains and initiative.
• 5. Males find power, violence, and war exciting.
• 6. Females are fun, but don't get attached. They threaten a man's freedom.
• 7. Men are inquiring, scientific, and adventurous.
• 8. Heroes overcome all obstacles.
• 9. When females say "no", they don't mean it.
• 10. The man's the boss.

• They are very welcoming to other men
• Intimacy lacking between men
• Men suffer just as much as women do

Through mocking

• Men - its more physical bc mote testosterone
• Women - its mental

Men have no interaction b/w two sides of brain .: more spatial, tunnel vision, motor skills

Women have interaction b/w two sides of brain .: multitasking, better senses, more verbal

• 10x more testosterone than women .: think about sex more often
• Brains are immature until 20 years old
• Big risk takers
• Aggressive
• Strong and big

• More estrogen .: feel more long-term, romantic love
• Very verbal and good memory
• Selective in romantic partners
• Better at identifying emotions in others
• Nurturing

• Boys = trucks
• Girls = dolls

To be caring and loving

Being beautiful on the inside is more important than physical beauty.

• 1. Female characters always saved by male characters
• 2. Characters mostly white
• 3. Good characters are pretty
• 4. Bad characters are ugly
• 5. Happiness = being wealthy
• 6. Happiness = finding your prince
• 7. Always have happy endings
• 8. Parents not present
• 9. Backdrop is usually a wealthy kingdom with royals

• You must have perf skin
• You must have great hair
• You must wear makeup
• You must be skinny
• You must be healthy

• You must be athletic or like sports
• You must drive fast cars
• You must be tall and muscular and lean
• You must like alcohol
• You must love to eat

The struggle b/w the image a girl has of herself and the image of what society tells her a woman should be like.

• A woman should be more concerned with:
• -her appearance
• -her relations w others
• -her ability to win approval from men

• Abilities
• Strengths
• Treatment by others
• Careers
• Physique and appearance
• Clothing

The process of learning the basic skills, values, beliefs, and behaviours expected by society.

Family - teach u how to love, morals and values, and responsibilites

Peers - teach u what's acceptable and what's not, how to act, peer pressure

School - teach u rules, career path, and knowledge

Media - influences ur views on music, fashion, romance, violence, and appearance

Church and Religion - teach u rules to live by, views of da afterlife, and the meaning of life

We are the way we are bc of our genetics

We are the way we are bc of our environment

Identical twins raised in totally different environments (Catholic in Germany and Jew in Trinidad)

• Both had mustaches
• Both wore wire-rimmed glasses
• Both had short tempers
• Both liked pranks (esp pretending they were about to sneeze in a crowded elevator)

A "wild child" or feral child who had been raised by wolves in the forest

• Had trouble standing
• Could not walk or talk
• Had sharp canine teeth
• Behaved like a wolf even after being in human compant for five years

Gilson Cicero da Silva is a 33 y o man whose father locked him up in a cage for 25 years when he was 8 bc he thought his son was mentally ill.

• Underfed
• Could not walk or talk
• Behaved like an animal

A person who's been isolated from the world for a very long time; like a feral child.

• In 1979
• More than 350 pairs of twins tested for a week
• To determine the importance of heredity vs environment in human development

Bc their genetics are 99% the same

• More than 50% of traits measured found to be due to heredity
• Findings strongly support nature

Fam has big influence and can either enhance or lessen ur genetic traits

In order to compare their similarities and differences to determine how much of it is hereditary and how much of it is environmental.

Both groups were found to be still similar, sharing the same personality traits

• Leadership
• Obedience to authority
• Well-being
• Zest for life
• Alienation
• Vulnerability
• Fearfulness
• Ambition

• Peoples environment and social class
• Poverty

• The Nazi holocaust bc Jews Aryan race etc.
• Singapore bc prime minister created bad program

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• Physical.development
• Dedication to mastering.an instrument

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Shared environment rather than genetics contributes to cartoon appreciation.

He seperated baby monkeys from their mothers and placed with two surrogate mothers made of wire with a feeding apparatus and of cloth with no feeding apparatus.

Objective was to see which of the mothers the monkeys would stay with the longest.

Babies preferred the cloth mother and stayed with it for up to 23 hours a day, only went to wire mother when it was hungry.

• -moved in circles
• -stared vavantly and rocked back and forth
• -introverted
• -didn't know proper mating behaviour of monkeys
• -females who became mothers were either indifferent or abusive to their young ones

Never stopped trying to be close to their mothers

• Not show emotion
• Show more aggression
• Not walk away from a fight
• Have nice body
• Being the hero
• Expected to be a leader
• Expected to date younger women
• Be gentlemen

• Ladylike
• Fragile vulnerable
• Vain
• Do chores
• Married w children
• Marry rich
• Family oriented
• Passive aggressive

• 1. Makes usually portrayed to be looking at the female, making her his object
• 2. Man-handling of females
• 3. Males w multiple women
• 4. Males shown as being disinterested

Genderless baby

• -parents imposing their views on a newborn
• -children would be ridiculed

Believe kids can make meaningful decisions for themselves from an early age and Piaget agreed

Bc it tells us what we can and can't do or how to behave based on our gender. Also ppl think that sex determines gender. Just cuz I have a vagina doesnt mean that I feel like I'm a girl. It's all between the ears.