Cross Cultural Psychology

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Chapter 1. Understanding Cross-Cultural Psychology

Multiple-choice questions
  1. If most people in country "A" accept inequality between the leaders and the led, the elite and the commons, then A's culture is likely to be described as:
    1. low on uncertainty avoidance
    2. high on uncertainty avoidance
    3. low on power sharing
    4. high on power sharing
    5. none of these characteristics

  2. A theoretical model that explores the ways in which biological factors affect human behavior, and thus lay a natural foundation for human culture is called:
    1. biological model
    2. Marxism
    3. sociobiology
    4. biological psychology
    5. critical thinking

  3. What does the Cultural Mixtures approach challenge?
    1. cultural dichotomies
    2. social Darwinism
    3. Marxism
    4. sociobiology
    5. none of these choices

  4. Around the world, measures of wealth and individualism tend to be ……………. correlated.
    1. negatively
    2. very seldom
    3. inconclusively
    4. positively
    5. almost never

  5. People in cultures measured high on …………. tend to support beliefs promising certainty, and to maintain institutions protecting conformity.
    1. collectivism
    2. uncertainty avoidance
    3. power distance
    4. femininity
    5. obedience

Short-answer questions

1. According to Marx, what kind of factors are the prime cause of human behavior and beliefs?

2. Name the major racial categories historically identified in the United States.

3. When the Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology was first published?

4. Name the view that supports judgment about other ethnic, national, and cultural groups and events from the observer's own ethnic, national, or cultural group's outlook?

5. The view that not only encourages recognition of equality for all cultural and national groups, but also promotes the idea that various cultural groups have the right to follow their own unique paths of development and have their own unique activities, values, and norms -- is called……..


Essay Questions.

1. What is the major difference between nationality and ethnicity? Give examples.

2. Describe the differences between cultural psychology and cross-cultural psychology.

3. Give examples of vertical and horizontal collectivism.

(c) 2004 Eric Shiraev, Ph.D.