- Aside from natural selection (e.g. climate), what are some sources of variation in hair and eye color/form?
- What are cognitive biases?How do they shape how we perceive other people?
- What is the same-race/other-race effect?
- What did the study on facial recognition suggest about why people are better able to distinguish faces of their “own” race compared to those who look different?
- How does the learning of social race categories affect how we encode individuating information about people?
- Are cognitive biases fixed?How do they change over time?
- What are some reasons that we might consider our predisposition to have prejudices/stereotypes to be “natural”?
- What is Social Identity Theory?
- What is a stereotype?
- What are some reasons why stereotypes are no longer adaptive in human societies?
- What is racism?
- What is an implicit bias?
- What are the different levels of racism?
- What is the eugenics movement, and some other examples of historical institutional racism?
- What is privilege?
- What is a racial microaggression?
- Are there inherent biological differences in intelligence between the races?
- What is the book The Bell Curve about?
- What are some false assumptions about race and intelligence made in The Bell Curve?
- What is the Flynn effect?
- How do IQ tests reflect both acculturation and cognitive abilities?
- How might IQ tests be biased?How are there cultural influences in measuring intelligence?
- What are differences in perceptual styles (field independence or dependence)?
- How does this relate to cross-cultural variation in conceptions of intelligence, and difficulty measuring it?
- What are some variables that vary between populations and cross-culturally which can affect the nutritional status of a population?
- Different types of human subsistence systems
- Most hunter-gatherers get most of their calories from what category of foods?
- What type of subsistence strategy results in reduced dietary diversity?
- Biological/phenotypic changes in response to shift to agriculture
- Essential nutrients in a human diet
- Growth vs. development
- Anthropometric measurements for assessing nutritional status in populations; sexual maturation & nutrition
- Stature and nutrition: where does stunting occur most in the world?
- Which nutritional deficiency is also relatively common in developed/post-industrial nations around the world?
- Difference between kwashiorkor & marasmus
- American racial inequalities in health: which racial/ethnic category of people experiences the highest death rates from some of the most common causes of death in the U.S.?
- Which racial/ethnic categories of people experience the lowest rates of healthcare and access to healthcare?
- How do cultural/social racial differences affect the health & biology of members of non-white categories?
- What are some racial/ethnic disparities in healthcare?
- What are some problems with assigned race-based medical prescriptions?
- What is the nativist movement?
- What are some key events in U.S. history that influenced immigration rules?What about the treatment of U.S. citizens?
- Which groups were historically excluded from immigrating to the US?Which nationalities?Social classes?Religions?
- Why were immigration inspection facilities like Ellis Island built?
- What are lynchings?When and where were they common?
- What happened in Marion, Indiana?
- What is institutional racism?How might it be unprejudiced but ultimately discriminatory?
- What are some systems where institutional discrimination might manifest?
- Fill in the matrix below with the following terms (according to Robert Merton)
Institutional discrimination, Latent prejudice, Overt discrimination, Equality
Table Matrix:
Nondiscriminatory
Discriminatory
Unprejudiced
Prejudiced
- What happened in Ferguson, MO?
- How/why was the Black Lives Matter movement founded? Who founded it? In response to which events?
- How is it different from previous civil rights movements?
- What is intersectionality?
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