Ss Vocab

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a national policy of actively trading w/ foreign countries to foster peave and prosperity

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internationalism

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the willingness to go to the brink of war to force an opponent to back down

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brinkmanship

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a systematic attempt to overthrow a gov. by usuing persons working secretly from within

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subversion

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large corporations with overseas investments

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multinational corp

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the buildup of conventional troops and weapons to allow a nation to fight a limitedwar with out using nuclear weapons

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flexible response

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a person who believes government power should be limited in order to maximize individual freedom

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conservative

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a person who generally believes the gov shold take an active role in social programs but should not dictate behavior

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liberal

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the spread of nuclear weapons to new nations

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nuclear proliferation

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an act of rebellion against te established government

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insurrection

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an organization that is authorized by law to carry on an ativity but treated as though it were a single person

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corporation

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an organization liked to a political party that often controlled local gov.

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political machine

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that actions used by one nation to exercise political or economic control over a smaller weaker nation

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imperialism

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relaxation of tensions between the us and its two main communist rivals, USSR and China

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detente

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belief that people in a territory shold have the ability to choose their own government

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self-determination

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the act of granting pardon to a large group of people

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amnesty

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factor in an experiment that researchers manipulate so that they can determine its effect

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independent variable

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Stress and health are thought to have an ___________ since stress goes up as health goes down

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negative correlation

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form of learning based on the consequences fo actions

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operant conditioning

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Stimulus that causes as automatic response

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unconditioned stimulus

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the form of learning that keeps knowledge hidden until it is needed

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latent learning

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the type of learning that occurs when a person observes and imitates others

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observational learning

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method of repeating information over and over to keep from forgetting it

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maintenance rehearsal

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method of remembering information by relating it to information already known

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elaborative rehearsal

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information stored according to its meaning

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semantic code

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changing the thoughts one has ina particular situation

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cognitive reconstructing

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test question that shows if the test taker is answering questions honestly

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validity scale

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cluster of symptoms that define or describe an illness in a cultural context

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culture-bound syndrome

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intense, persisitent feelings of anxiety caused by traumatic experience

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post-traumatic stress disorder

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alernatives that must be given up when one is chosen over another

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trade-off

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economic system which private citizens own and use the factors or production in order to generate profits

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capitalism

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desire, ability, and willingness to buy a product

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demand

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a measure of responsiveness that tells us how a dependent variable such as quantity responds to an independent variable

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elasticity

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the amount of a product that would be offered for sale at all possible prices that could prevail in the market

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supply

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any substance that servess as a medium of exchange, a measure of value, and a store of value

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money

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the quality of life based on the possesion of necessities and luxuries that make life easier

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standard of living

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privately owned, publicly controlled, central bank of the united states

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federal reserve system

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government administrators

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bureaucracy

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a complex network of voluntary associations, economic groups, religious, religious organizations, and many other kinds of groups that exist independent of government

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civil society

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the art and practice of conducting negotiations between nations without arousing hostility

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diplomacy

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a system in which power is divided between the national and state government

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federalism

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the institution through which the state maintains social order, provides public services, and enforces binding decisions on citizens

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government

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the legal process by which a person is granted citizenship

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naturalization

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the effort to control or influence the conduct and policies of the gov

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politics

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a government in which voters hold sovereign power, elected representatives, responsible to the people, exercise that power

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republic

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the supreme and absolute authority with in territorial boundaries

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sovereignty

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the blending or fusing of minority groups into the dominant society

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assimilation

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knowledge, values, customs, and physical objects that are shared by members of a society

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culture

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judging others in terms of one's own cultural standards

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ethnocentrism

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the process of learnin to participate in a group

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socialization

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the ability to see the link between society and self

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sociological imagination

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broad ideas about what is good and desirable shared by people in a society

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values

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rewards or punishment that encourage conformatity to social norms

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social sanctions

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anything that stands for something else and has an agreed upon meaning attached to it

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symbol

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behavior that departs from societal or group norms

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deviance

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the exact position of a place on the earth's surface

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absolute location

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a center where cultures developed and from which ideas and traditions spread outward

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cultural hearth

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teh complex communtity of interdependent living things in a given environment

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ecosystem

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a central point and the surrounding territory linked to it

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functional region

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relying on one another for goods, services, and ideas

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interdependent

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the pattern of population in a country, a continent, or the world

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population distribution

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a place united by specific characteristics

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region

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of or relating to people who live in the country

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rural

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producing just enough food for a family of a village to survive

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substence agriculture

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satisfying the demands fo dissatisfied powers in an effort to maintain peace and stability

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appeasment

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self-governing

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autonomous

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a person who speaks out against the regime in power

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dissident

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a system in which society, usually in the form of the government, owns and controls teh means of production

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socialism

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an upper class member whose wealth is based on land and whose power is passed on from one generation to another

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aristocracy

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the unique cultural identity of a people based on common language, religion, and national symbols

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nationalism