Legal Anthropology MCQs

1. What is Cognitive Anthropology?

(A) The study of human behavior

(B) The study of cognitive processes and structures in different cultures

(C) The study of ancient civilizations

(D) The study of biological evolution

2. Who is considered a prominent figure in Cognitive Anthropology?

(A) Clifford Geertz

(B) Jean Piaget

(C) Margaret Mead

(D) Claude Lévi-Strauss

3. What does Cognitive Anthropology focus on?

(A) Physical anthropology

(B) Mental processes and cultural schemas

(C) Archaeological excavations

(D) Linguistic anthropology

4. Which concept refers to mental frameworks that shape understanding and interpretation?

(A) Cognitive dissonance

(B) Cultural schemas

(C) Linguistic relativity

(D) Ethnocentrism

5. What is “cognitive mapping” in Cognitive Anthropology?

(A) Mapping of brain functions

(B) Mapping of cultural knowledge and spatial relationships

(C) Mapping of ancient civilizations

(D) Mapping of linguistic structures

6. What is “folk taxonomy”?

(A) A system of categorizing cultural beliefs

(B) A system of classifying natural phenomena

(C) A system of linguistic structures

(D) A system of political ideologies

7. Who introduced the concept of “cultural models” in Cognitive Anthropology?

(A) Clifford Geertz

(B) Margaret Mead

(C) Roy D’Andrade

(D) Franz Boas

8. What is “cultural consensus theory”?

(A) The theory that cultural beliefs are always consensual

(B) The theory that cultural knowledge is shared within a community

(C) The theory that cultural beliefs are subjective

(D) The theory that cultural beliefs are static

9. What is “schema theory” in Cognitive Anthropology?

(A) The study of ancient schemas

(B) The study of cognitive frameworks that organize information

(C) The study of cultural beliefs

(D) The study of linguistic structures

10. What is “cognitive universals”?

(A) Universal cognitive processes shared by all humans

(B) Cultural beliefs that vary across societies

(C) Linguistic structures common to all languages

(D) Ancient civilizations with similar cognitive patterns