Language is specifically a system of communication composed of:
a. signals and gestures
b. sounds and signals
c. sounds and gestures
d. abstract ideas
c
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The process by which humans innovate, creatively finding solutions to problems, is a mechanism of cultural change known as
A. Acculturation B. Ethnocentrism C. Independent invention D. Indirect diffusion
According to quantitive studies to gender-based language differences, men tend to interpret women more often than the reverse. Men also tend to talk for longer overall periods of time than women. Which of the following ideas do these findings best support?
Dominance model Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis Difference model Universal grammar
The Upper Paleolithic coincided with the last
a. ice age. b. thermo age. c. dinosaur. d. greenhouse effect.
Culture can be adaptive or maladaptive. It is maladaptive when
A. it exhibits cultural traits that are not shared with the majority of the group. B. it threatens the core values of a culture that guarantee its integration. C. cultural traits diminish the survival of particular individuals but not others. D. cultural traits, patterns, and inventions disrupt the world economy, causing international discontent. E. cultural traits, patterns, and inventions threaten the group's continued survival and reproduction and thus its very existence.