PSY 426 - Final Exam Study Guide
questions with answers
Stereotypes - ANSWERS✔✔Assumptions that all members of a specific group share characteristics
or traits.
Norms - ANSWERS✔✔Rules within a group indicating how its members should (or should not)
behave.
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - ANSWERS✔✔A motivational theory suggesting that humans have a
hierarchy of needs, the culmination of which results in self-actualization.
The Hierarchy moves as follows:
Level 5: Self-Actualization Needs
Level 4: Esteem Needs
Level 3: Belonging and Love Needs
Level 2: Safety Needs
Level 1: Physiological Needs
Self-Centered Bias - ANSWERS✔✔A tendency to take credit for one's own successes while avoiding
responsibility for one's own failures.
Locus of Control - ANSWERS✔✔The generalized belief that control of one's experiences rests on
either internal or external factors.
Someone with an internal locus believes he or she is in control of events around them.
In contrast, someone with an external locus will believe that events are out of their control.
, Feeling Rules - ANSWERS✔✔Cultural rules governing an individual's emotional and subjective
response to a situation.
In India, the color of purity. In South Africa, the color of mourning. - ANSWERS✔✔Red
A country where suicide is highly prevalent compared to many other nations. - ANSWERS✔✔Japan
A country with a very low rate of alcohol consumption - ANSWERS✔✔Israel
In the United States, _________ have the highest rates of reported illegal drug use. -
ANSWERS✔✔Men
The Hmong people came to live in the US as refugees from ________ after the Vietnam War. -
ANSWERS✔✔Laos
Refugee - ANSWERS✔✔An individual who has left his or her native country and is unwilling or
unable to return because of persecution over biological, social, cultural, and/or religious factors.
Racial Capital - ANSWERS✔✔Unearned privilege; occurs when one group has privilege over the
other.
An example of this would be when all of the superheroes shown in children's cartoons are
Caucasian.
A group of people who, on average, consume 50 percent of the world's drinkable alcohol. -
ANSWERS✔✔Europeans
Barriers to Mental Health Care Across Cultures - ANSWERS✔✔Language
Differing views on health and healing
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