Cross Culture

What distinguishes cultural psychology from mainstream psychology?

• a) The phenomenon of interest and study

• b) The interest in a narrow range of phenomena related to human behavior

• c) Topic specific cross-cultural research methods

• d) The interest in understanding cultural influences on behavior

Which of the following statements is true?

• a) Society is a system of interrelationships among people

• b) Only human animals are social and have societies.

• c) Culture and society are both about the meanings and information that are associated with social networks.

• d) All human cultures assign similar or same meanings to their social groups.

____ are evaluations of things occurring in ongoing thoughts about the things, or stored in memory.

• a) Attitudes

• b) Worldviews

• c) Culture-specific worldviews

• d) Norms

____ is an organized system of beliefs that tie together many attitudes, values, beliefs, worldviews, and norms provide guidelines for living.

• a) Religion

• b) Spirituality

• c) A culture's set of normal values

• d) A culture's set of sacred morals

Cross-cultural research focuses on testing the ____ of psychological knowledge.

• a) population parameters

• b) cultural parameters

• c) culture specific ideology

• d) scientific philosophy

Which one of the following statements is true regarding cultural worldviews?

• a) An important aspect of our worldviews is how we think about our self.

• b) They are universal belief systems about the world.

• c) People have worldviews because of globalization.

• d) Most cultures share the same cultural worldviews.

Which of the following is NOT part of Hofstede’s value dimensions?

• a) Individualism

• b) Masculinity

• c) Femininity

• d) Personality

Cross-cultural research is unique because it often involves collecting data in multiple languages, and researchers need to establish the ____ of the research protocols.

• a) linguistic equivalence

• b) replicability

• c) translation equivalence

• d) sampling equivalence

____ are measures that assess psychological dimensions related to meaningful dimensions of cultural variability and that are completed by individuals. They are often used to ensure that samples in different cultures actually harbor the cultural characteristics thought to differentiate them.

• a) Structure-oriented measures of culture

• b) Ecological- or cultural-level measures of culture

• c) Individual-level measures of culture

• d) Contextual factors

________ can be defined as a state or condition of similarity in conceptual meaning and empirical method between cultures that allows comparisons to be meaningful.

• a) Equivalence

• b) Cross-cultural research

• c) Comparisons

• d) Cultural bias