Among These Technologies or Behaviors That Characterize the Late Stone

question 87

Essay

Among these technologies or behaviors that characterize the Late Stone Age and Upper Paleolithic are: 1. the reliance on new and improved stone tool technologies, 2. new hunting and weapons technologies, 3. a broadening of the subsistence quest, 4. branching out in raw materials, 5. new uses for plant materials, 6. the acquisition of raw materials from a great distance, 7. larger sites of population aggregation, 8. an abundance of non-utilitarian objects, 9. elaborate burials, and 10. symbolic expression through the production of art. Provide examples of each of these from the archaeological record.

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Definitions:

UCS

An abbreviation commonly used in psychology for "Unconditioned Stimulus," which is a stimulus that naturally triggers a response without the need for prior conditioning.

Fear-Producing Stimulus

An object, event, or situation that induces a fear response in an individual.

"Little Albert" Study

An experiment conducted by John B. Watson and Rosalie Rayner that demonstrated classical conditioning in humans by showing how an infant named Albert became conditioned to fear a white rat.

Conditioned Response

A learned reaction to a conditioned stimulus that occurs because of previous conditioning, as demonstrated in classical conditioning experiments.