Chapter 1
An Introduction to Culture and Psychology
1. 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
ANS: d REF: Cultural Psychology – Psychology with a Cultural Perspective
NOT: www
2. Which of the following is correct?
a) Groups are less efficient because they divide labor.
b) Morality, a uniquely human product, is present from birth.
c) Humans and animals have the ability to continually build upon improvements.
d) Complexity, differentiation, and institutionalization differentiate humans from
animals.
ANS: d REF: What is Culture?
3. Human culture, as a unique meaning and information system transmitted across
generations, allows the group to meet basic needs of survival, pursue happiness and well-
being, and derive meaning from life.
a) True
b) False
ANS: a REF: What is Culture?
4. That psychologists and laypersons often equate ethnicity with race ____.
a) is incorrect
b) is problematic
c) is arbitrary
d) has no explanatory value
ANS: b REF: What is Culture?
5. Nonhuman animals have social groups similar to humans but they do not have cultures.
a) True
b) False
ANS: b REF: What is Culture?
6. 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.
ANS: a REF: What is Culture?
,7. Which statement about race is true?
a) Race can be genetically proven
b) Race is only controversial in the lay community
c) Studies of genetic systems suggest that racially defined groups are more similar
than different
d) Anthropologists use skin color, hair, and other physical characteristics to define
race
ANS: c REF: What is Culture?
8. ____ is the social psychological frame within which individuals reside, much like the
structure of our houses and homes.
a) Society
b) Culture
c) A social construct
d) Popular culture
ANS: b REF: What is Culture?
NOT: www
9. Which of the following statements is true regarding Hofstede’s value dimensions?
a) Hofstede suggests four dimensions that differentiate cultures.
b) Power Distance refers to the degree to which people feel threatened by ambiguous
situations.
c) Masculinity vs. Femininity refers to the distribution of social and sexual roles
between males and females.
d) Intellectual Autonomy refers to the degree to which cultures emphasize the
promotion and protection of people's independent pursuit of positive experiences.
ANS: c REF: The Contents of Culture
NOT: www
10. Which one of the following statements is true of Shalom Schwartz's research?
a) He measured values in many countries using a 65-item instrument.
b) His Affective and Intellectual Autonomy and Egalitarianism is positively
correlated with Hofstede's Individualism.
c) He identified six universal values.
d) His universal values include embeddedness, hierarchy, and uncertainty avoidance.
ANS: b REF: The Contents of Culture
11. Social axioms are general beliefs and premises about oneself, the social and physical
environment, and the spiritual world.
a) True
b) False
ANS: a REF: The Contents of Culture
NOT: www
,12. 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.
ANS: a REF: The Contents of Culture
13. Which of the following statements is correct?
a) Culture is an adaptational response to ecology, social factors, and ethnicity.
b) Culture is a tangible, not an abstract concept.
c) Culture influences psychological processes, not behaviors.
d) Newborns have no culture.
ANS: d REF: How Does Culture Influence Human Behaviors and Mental
Processes?
NOT: www
14. Individuals are first welcomed into their worlds at birth and begin a process of
learning about their culture through the process of ____.
a) enculturation
b) education
c) grouping
d) language
ANS: a REF: How Does Culture Influence Human Behaviors and Mental
Processes?
15. Which if the following is the most accurate statement?
a) The evolution of human culture suggests that there are few psychological
processes in which all humans engage.
b) Humans are not unique in their ability to recognize that others are intentional
agents.
c) There are little cultural differences in attributional styles among different human
cultures.
d) Attribution processes may be found only in human society.
ANS: d REF: How Does Culture Influence Human Behaviors and Mental
Processes?
16. ____ 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
ANS: a REF: How Does Culture Influence Human Behaviors and Mental
Processes?
, 17. An important thing to remember about cultures is that some serve their purpose better
than others and not all have worked until now.
a) True
b) False
ANS: b REF: How Does Culture Influence Human Behaviors and Mental
Processes?
NOT: www
18. While people of different cultures are often similar in what they do, they are very
different in why they do them.
a) True
b) False
ANS: b REF: How Does Culture Influence Human Behaviors and Mental
Processes?
19. A universal psychological process is one that is found to be true or applicable for
most people of most cultures.
a) True
b) False
ANS: b REF: Cultural Psychology – Psychology with a Cultural Perspective
20. While cross-cultural research makes methodological changes in studies, in a broader
sense, it is also a way of ____.
a) demonstrating the conditional lack of limitations in our knowledge
b) understanding principles about human behaviors within a global perspective
c) proving people of different cultures are different
d) proving people of different cultures are similar
ANS: b REF: Cultural Psychology – Psychology with a Cultural Perspective
21. The process of making attributions is something that is universal to all humans.
a) True
b) False
ANS: a REF: How Does Culture Influence Human Behaviors and Mental
Processes?
22. Which one of the following statements is true?
a) Most animals are solitary and do not live in groups.
b) In animal societies, there are no clear social networks and hierarchies.
c) As with the human staring game, the animal that smiles or averts its gaze becomes
subordinate.
d) Very few animals actually invent and use tools.
ANS: c REF: What is Culture?
NOT: www
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