Anthropology Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• cultural : sub-field of anthropology that studies living cultures
• neanderthals : extinct descendant of homo erectus that bred with modern humnas
• postmodernism : school of thought which states that its impossible to have “true” knowledge about the world—truth is constructed based on our biases.
• africa : place of origin of modern humans
• physical : sub-field of anthropology that studies how the human body evolves and adapts to different environments
• culture : what people do, make and believe.
• mead : anthropologist who found that in samoa, teens are not as troubled during puberty as north american teens, due to their culture.
• reflexivity : means analyzing own beliefs to understand how they affect the interpretation of what you observe.
• goodall : physical anthropologist who studies chimps to learn how our ancient ancestors might have lived.
• hypothesis : step in the scientific method where we try to predict an answer to our research question.
• malinowski : cultural anthropologist who developed the method of participant-observation
• anthropology : study of the human species and of the various cultures that make up humanity
• self serving : bias where we tend to attribute our “bad” behaviors to situation and others to their personality
• confirmation : bias where we tend to search for or interpret information in a way that confirms what we already believe.
• reliability : the repeatability of a study: the extent to which other researchers can produce exactly the same results when they repeat it.