Anthropology may aid in the progress of education by helping educators avoid all of the following EXCEPT
A. tolerance of ethnic diversity.
B. incorrect application of labels such as "learning impaired."
C. sociolinguistic discrimination.
D. indiscriminate assignment of nonnative English speakers to the same classrooms as children with "behavior problems."
E. ethnic stereotyping.
Answer: A
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a. It is defined as the time between weaning and puberty. b. It is a vulnerable stage of human development. c. Childhood is key to learning in humans. d. Humans have unusually long childhoods. e. It is an extremely short stage of human life.
Evolution can be most succinctly defined as
a. the appearance of new species. b. the change from one species to another in one generation. c. a change in allele frequencies from one generation to the next. d. any type of genetic mutation. e. genetic drift.
The Incan Empire was governed by a political state. Each of the following is true of the Incan state government EXCEPT it
a. organized land and labor by levying a tax on production. b. effectively integrated a large population into a political unit. c. conducted a periodic census. d. did not have a writing system for communication or a monetary system for exchange.
Hodder's research is important because
a. it demonstrates that the principle of uniformitarianism is easy to implement in ethnoarchaeology. b. it demonstrates that archaeologists need to consider the symbolic meanings of material culture in order to appreciate how it will be treated as trash. c. it demonstrates that the principle of uniformitarianism cannot be applied to ethnoarchaeology. d. it demonstrates that the cultural component is very easy to study archaeologically. e. it shows that archaeologists do not need to consider the symbolic meanings of material culture