PHS Cultural Diversity and Sensitivity Vocabulary Quiz

What is the term for the classification of people based on physical or biological characteristics?

• Ethnicity

• Sensitivity

• Race

• Spirituality

Which term describes the ability to recognize and appreciate the personal characteristics of others?

• Sensitivity

• Prejudice

• Bias

• Ethnocentric

What is the family structure called in which the mother or oldest female is the authority figure?

• Patriarchal

• Matriarchal

• Ethnocentric

• Agnostic

Which term refers to the classification of people based on national origin and/or culture?

• Ethnicity

• Race

• Bias

• Religion

What is the process of learning the beliefs and behaviors of a dominant culture and assuming some of its characteristics called?

• Acculturation

• Stereotyping

• Prejudice

• Spirituality

What is the assumption that everyone in a particular group is the same called?

• Bias

• Sensitivity

• Stereotyping

• Ethnocentric

Who is a person that does not believe in any deity?

• Agnostic

• Atheist

• Patriarchal

• Matriarchal

What term describes individuals who believe in the supremacy of their own ethnic group?

• Prejudice

• Ethnocentric

• Sensitivity

• Spirituality

What is a preference that inhibits impartial judgment called?

• Bias

• Religion

• Acculturation

• Sensitivity

What do you call a person who believes that the existence of a God cannot be proved or disproved?

• Atheist

• Agnostic

• Ethnocentric

• Patriarchal