Cross-Cultural Psychology EOS Revision

Which of the following is an example of a self-fulfilling prophecy?

• Believing you'll fail and therefore not studying

• Practicing for a test and succeeding

• Predicting your grades based on past performance

• Changing majors based on interest

Which among the following is NOT a cognitive bias?

• Language bias

• Assimilation bias

• Cognitive skills

• Similarity-uniqueness paradox

Which of the following best describes the integration strategy in Berry’s acculturation model?

• Rejecting both host and original culture

• Adopting the host culture while rejecting the original

• Keeping your own culture while also joining the new culture

• Avoiding all cultural contact

A student who avoids contact with local peers and no longer practices their own cultural traditions is demonstrating

• Assimilation

• Integration

• Marginalization

• Separation

According to Bronfenbrenner, which system includes family and school that directly influence acculturation?

• Macrosystem

• Exosystem

• Microsystem

• Chronosystem

What does the out-group effect refer to?

• Believing your culture is diverse while others are similar

• Preferring people from another culture rather than your own culture

• Thinking all cultures are the same

• Believing others are better at teamwork

A culture that emphasizes individual achievement and autonomy likely scores high on:

• Restraint

• Power Distance

• Individualism

• Feminity

In many Asian cultures, distress is often expressed through physical symptoms such as headaches or fatigue. This is an example of:

• Spiritual model

• Emotional expression

• Somatization

• Semantic bias

A mismatch between a therapist’s terminology and a client’s cultural expressions of illness may be due to:

• Self-serving bias

• Semantic mismatch

• High power distance

• Cognitive dissonance

Which of the following best describes an emic approach in cross-cultural research?

• Comparing memory performance between students from two countries using the same standardized test
  

• Applying a universal theory of intelligence across multiple cultures

• Developing a locally relevant stress scale based on interviews within one cultural group

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  Using statistical models to generalize findings to global populations