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WorksheetsCross Culture
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
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
____ refers to studies in which researchers create conditions to establish cause-effect relationships, in which participants are randomly assigned to groups and compared across conditions.
a) Ethnographies
b) Content analysis
c) Experiments
d) Exploratory studies
The degree to which different samples in different cultures are equivalent to each other is a description of ____.
a) sampling difference
b) statistical cultural equivalence
c) statistical sampling difference
d) sampling equivalence
Perhaps the most important arena with regard to bias and equivalence may concern the issue of ____.
a) measurement
b) language
c) procedures
d) centeredness
______ is the degree to which a finding, measurement, or statistic is accurate, or represents what it is supposed to.
a) Validity
b) Reliability
c) Response bias
d) Regression analysis
______ is the process by which we learn and internalize the rules and patterns of the society in which we live. This process, which occurs over a long pattern of time, involves learning and mastering societal norms, attitudes, values, and belief systems. Fill in the blank.
a) Enculturation
b) Socialization
c) Acculturation
d) Adaptation
Which of the following generally refers to the products of the socialization process – the subjective, underlying, psychological aspects of culture that become internalized through development?
a) Enculturation
b) Adaptation
c) Personality
d) Temperament
The most important microsystem to a child’s development is the family, and parents are arguably the most important ____.
a) macrocosm
b) factor of authoritarian enculturation
c) socialization agent
d) postfigurative socializers
____ is a style of parenting in which parents allow children to regulate their own lives and provide few firm guidelines.
a) Authoritarian parenting
b) Authoritative parenting
c) Uninvolved parenting
d) Permissive parenting
According to Stigler and Baranes (1988), ____ and ____ have a very special relationship because math skills “ are not logically constructed on the basis of abstract cognitive structures, but rather are forged out of a combination of previously acquired (or inherited) knowledge and skills, and new cultural input.”
a) math, the Korean language
b) mathematical reasoning, language
c) math, culture
d) math, science
Which of the following refer to natural abilities that are shaped by evolutionary processes that all people presumably share?
a) Primary math abilities
b) Secondary math abilities
c) Secondary abilities
d) Tertiary abilities
