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Since its conception, social science has entwined two aspects. Sometimes it is simply trying to achieve a limited understaind of our place in the cosmos, and at other times it is trying to:

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Scientific knowledge is knowledge that has been:

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Social Science and natural science are both scientific but different in focus because:

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There are many different social science disciplines with varying approached but in understanding modern problems social scientists need to know:

How the social sciences interrelate

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Anthropology is the study of the relationship between:

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Some of the concerns of geography are ecology, climate, and resources and:

Demography

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In the social Sciences, very little use can be made of controlled experiments because the investigator:

cannot control the situations

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The study of social arrangements to maintain peace and order within a society is called:

Political Science

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Social scientists find statistics useful because of the:

Possible insights into social problems and relationships

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In a democracy, social scientists can aid people to make informed choices about public policies by:

helping people understand the issues and alternative options available

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Educated common sense:

is important in the social sciences

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The human species most probably originated five to seven million years ago in:

Africa

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The process of random genetic changes that create new characteristics is called:

Mutation

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Gregor Mendel discovered inheritance factors now called genes. Genes determine:

The characteristics of future generations

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In 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick unraveled the double helix structure of:

DNA

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The purpose of the Human Genome Project is to:

map or identify all the human genes

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Genetic Engineering including cloning technology presents society with:

Extraordinarily difficult moral and political questions

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Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould argue that evolution is characterized by long periods of relative stability that are:

punctuated by sudden changes

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The most important physical difference between humans and apes is that in the larger size and complexity of the human:

Brain

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Recent DNA tests have indicated that Neanderthals were probably genetically:

Quite separate from modern humans

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Some scientists argue that language is not limited to humans that linguistic ability is also possessed by other species such as:

Chimpanzees

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The Cro-Magnons, like the Neanderthals were:

Hunters and gatherers

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Whether evolution is punctuated or continous is:

still much in debate

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The gathering of people into a spatially and ethnically defined unit organized and run by a small group who will maintain order and defend the unit is:

The basic political institution

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The leaders of ealy kingdoms in Egypt and Mesopotamia became:

King-Gods

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Western political organizations have their foundations in the:

Greek Polis

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In general life in Europe after the fall of Rome came to be centered around an agricultural manor called a:

Feudal Estate

Test 1 Question 29

In the Middle Ages religion played a central role in all individuals' lives. The church:

A) Told people how they should live.

B) ended Europe's isolation by launching the   crusades

C) Controlled knowledge

D) Controlled Education

E) ALL OF THE ABOVE (answer)

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Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, and Donatello were artists during the:

Renaissance

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The expansion of Renaissance trade and the creation of a new urban merchant class helped make possible:

The modern state

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The Age of Revolutions (1750-1850) is referred to as such because:

there was enormous economic and political changes occurring during this time.

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James Watt's steam engine and James Hargreave's spinning Jenny helped make it possible to produce more output and to:

Reorganize the types of work people did

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Beginning in the late 1980's the countries of Eastern Europe become independent of the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.) which:

itself broke up

Test 1 Question 36

The function of social science is not primarily to determine social objectives but instead to discover how our objectives can be achieved

True

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Scientific knowledge can be roughly grouped into two major fields - humanities and language arts.

False

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All expressions of human culture are unrelated and independent

False

Test 1 Question 39

Social Science disciplines are clearly defined so that no two fields cover the same subjects

False

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Social scientists basically use the same approaches and methods and discourage different discipline approaches.

False

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Virtually no one in our modern society interprets the Bible literally anymore as it relates to the origins of man.

False

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Intellegent design is different from scientific creationism in that it does not challenge evolutionary evidence.

True

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Charles Darwin was influenced by his voyage on the Beagle to formulate his natural selection mechanism of evolution

True

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Natural selection does not acompletely account for all evolutionary changes

True

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Tool use may have led to more protein and fat in the early hominid diet and enlarged brains

True

Test 1 Question 46

Today, Latin forms the basis of only a few words in the English language

False

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The "Code of Hammurabi" is an early collection of mathematical equations applied to monumental architecture construction which diffused from Egypt to Mesopotamia

False

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The landed nobility lost power as the city merchants gained power during the Middle Ages

True

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Mercantilism was an early phaseof capitalism

True

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In the 1750's, once again technological changes slowed down and became less important.

False