Cross Cultural Psychology

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Chapter 2. Methodology

Multiple-choice questions
  1. The cross-cultural correspondence between income and violent crime was found: the higher income per capita in a region, the lower the rates of violent crime in that area. This is an example of a……….correlation.
    1. positive
    2. high
    3. low
    4. negative
    5. high-low

  2. The approach, according to which, human behavior in its full complexity can be understood only within the context of the culture in which it occurs, is called:
    1. the complex
    2. the relativist
    3. the absolutist
    4. the context-based
    5. the context-occurrence

  3. A longitudinal qualitative analysis of particular individuals -- usually outstanding persons, celebrities, and leaders -- is called:
    1. content-analysis
    2. meta-analysis
    3. celebrity psychoanalysis
    4. pop-psychology
    5. psychobiographical research

  4. A label (or term) used for evidence that the methods selected for a study, measure the same phenomenon across other countries chosen for the study is called:
    1. rationality
    2. correlation
    3. equivalence
    4. sameness
    5. cross-sectional evidence

  5. Does correlation establish a cause-and-effect relationship between the variables?
    1. yes
    2. no
    3. yes, only in cross-cultural studies
    4. in 50 percent of studies
    5. in 30 percent of studies

Short-answer questions

1. Name three basic measures of central tendency.

2. The terms "etic" and "emic" refer to which approaches in cross-cultural psychology?

3. The sampling strategy, in which a researcher chooses a culture by chance or, most likely, because of the researcher's professional or personal contacts in the country in which the samples are selected is called………

4. What is the size of a typical focus group?

5. According to the U.S. Bureau of the Census, which groups of individuals tend to be most "responsive" to written questionnaires sent to them?


Essay Questions.

1. Give an example of the comparativist strategy in cross-cultural research.

2. Describe the differences between the absolutist and relativist approaches in cross-cultural psychology.


(c) 2004 Eric Shiraev, Ph.D.