Haidt Chapters 5, 6, 7, & 8 Exam
Questions With Correct Answers
1. According to Haidt, what is a WEIRD culture and how do individuals from a WEIRD culture
compare to individuals from other cultures with respect to...
(i) self-categorizes (e.g., in completing "I am..."statements)? (113) - answer...
1. According to Haidt, what is a WEIRD culture and how do individuals from a WEIRD culture
compare to individuals from other cultures with respect to...
(i) self-categorizes (e.g., in completing "I am..."statements)? (113) - answer✔✔Western
Educated
Industrialized
Rich
Democratic
The WEIRDer you are, the more you see a world full of seperate objects, rather than
relationships.
Americans likely to list their internal psychological characteristics (happy, outgoing, interested
in jazz) whereas East Asians are likely to list their roles and relationships (a son, a husband, an
employee of...)
1. According to Haidt, what is a WEIRD culture and how do individuals from a WEIRD culture
compare to individuals from other cultures with respect to...
(ii) visual perception (e.g., performance on the framed line task)? (113) - answer✔✔Differences
in visual perception run deep.
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Task was to draw the line that you saw on the previous page, either in absolute terms (same
number of centimeters; ignore the new frame) or in relative terms (same proportion relative
terms (same proportion relative to the frame).
Americans excel at the absolute task, because they saw the line as an independent objects in the
first place and stored it separately in memory.
East Asians, in contrast, outperform Americans at the relative task, because they automatically
perceived and remembered the relationship among parts.
1. According to Haidt, what is a WEIRD culture and how do individuals from a WEIRD culture
compare to individuals from other cultures with respect to...
(iii) thinking style? (113) - answer✔✔Most people think holistically (seeing the whole context
and the relationships among parts), but WEIRD people think more analytically (detaching the
focal object from its context, assigning it to a category, and then assuming that whats true about
the category is true about the object).
1. According to Haidt, what is a WEIRD culture and how do individuals from a WEIRD culture
compare to individuals from other cultures with respect to...
(iv) constructing moral systems? (113-4) - answer✔✔If WEIRD and non-WEIRD people think
differently and see the world differently, then it stands to reason that they'd have different moral
concerns.
If you live a WEIRD life, you see a world full of individuals and you'll want the morality of
Kohlberg and Turiel- a morality that protects those individuals and their individual rights.
If you live a non-WEIRD life, you'll want a society that people see relationships, contexts,
groups, and institutions where people aren't so focused on protecting individual rights, they have
a more sociocentric morality or placing the needs of groups and institutions first ahead of
individuals.
2. According to Haidt, what principle of moral psychology will he will be defending in Part II of
his book and in what sense does he think it is true? - answer✔✔"There is more to morality than
harm and fairness." He's going to try to convince us that this principle is true "descriptively"--a
portrait of the moralities we see when we li=ook around the world.
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