Question 1

According to most psychologists, our brain is the ___________ and our cultural indoctrination is the _____________.

Accepted Answer

A)   software; hard drive
B)   hard drive; software
C)   mechanism; hard drive
D)   mechanism; solution

Question 2

Which statement is true?

Accepted Answer

A)   Culture doesn't affect Western people's sense of self.
B)   Culture doesn't affect Eastern people's sense of self.
C)   Culture has a negative effect on the development of self.
D)   Culture shapes our sense of self.

Question 3

Worchel and associates found that hostility decreased only when cooperation was ______________, and that hostility can worsen when __________________________.

Accepted Answer

A)   unsuccessful; one group values the outcome more than the other group.
B)   successful; one group values the outcome more than the other group.
C)   unsuccessful; cooperation fails and groups attribute failure to each other.
D)   successful; cooperation fails and groups attribute failure to each other.

Question 4

Aliens who abducted a very small sample of humans, each from different cultures, would likely conclude that

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A)   their participants are members of different species.
B)   although all are human, the participants are more different than alike.
C)   when brought together on the alien planet, the humans were unable to find anything in common.
D)   humans everywhere are intensely social creatures.

Question 5

Biology and culture may also

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A)   compete.
B)   interact.
C)   interpolate.
D)   reciprocate.

Question 6

How would evolutionary psychology explain Brown's universal norms that forms of address communicate social status and that advances in intimacy are initiated by the higher status person?

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Question 7

The evolutionary perspective is to the cultural perspective as ____________ is to ____________.

Accepted Answer

A)   gender role; social role
B)   coevolution; empathy
C)   role; norm
D)   human kinship; human diversity

Question 8

Han and Shavitt (1994)  found that in Korea ads are more likely to emphasize the interpersonal benefits or products, whereas in North America ads are more likely to

Accepted Answer

A)   emphasize the general aspect of the product.
B)   emphasize the personal benefits of products.
C)   emphasize the information related to the product.
D)   emphasize the information related to the society at large.

Question 9

The cultural perspective is to ______________ as the evolutionary perspective is to _______________.

Accepted Answer

A)   Brown; Darwin
B)   social norms; human adaptability
C)   social roles; hormonal factors
D)   human adaptability; natural selection

Question 10

Seven-year-old Mary says "Thank you" after opening each birthday present she receives because her family considers it to be proper behaviour. This best illustrates the influence of a

Accepted Answer

A)   norm.
B)   schema.
C)   role.
D)   stereotype.

Question 11

Identifying with both the ethnic culture and the larger culture is called a(n)

Accepted Answer

A)   group identity.
B)   bicultural identity.
C)   assimilated identity.
D)   culturally diverse perspective.

Question 12

Tara moved to Canada from Germany, but doesn't really identify with European traditions or the broader new Canadian culture and doesn't have a high self-esteem. Her ethnic and cultural identity would be classified as

Accepted Answer

A)   marginal.
B)   bicultural.
C)   assimilated.
D)   separated.

Question 13

Describe the influence of contact versus cooperation on conflicting groups.

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Question 14

People who speak more than one language

Accepted Answer

A)   think differently in each language.
B)   think similarly in each language.
C)   cannot write well in one of the languages.
D)   do not have good accents in one of the languages.

Question 15

What was the result when Asch's experiments were replicated with university students in United States?

Accepted Answer

A)   The replication sometimes triggered more conformity than the original studies.
B)   The replication didn't show any difference from the original studies.
C)   The replication sometimes triggered less conformity than the original studies.
D)   The replication triggered much more conformity than the original studies.

Question 16

Culture shapes all the following items except

Accepted Answer

A)   how people understand emotions.
B)   how people interpret emotional situations.
C)   how many emotions people have.
D)   how people respond to emotional situations.

Question 17

When _________________, Easterners see personality as just as potent a cause of behaviour as Westerners do.

Accepted Answer

A)   the situation is not salient
B)   the situation is salient
C)   the personality is not mature
D)   the personality is mature

Question 18

Adams (2005)  examined how people understood enemies in North America and West Africa. He found that

Accepted Answer

A)   in North America, people think that none of their friends could also be enemies.
B)   in North America, people think that some of their friends could also be their enemies.
C)   West Africans think that none of their friends could also be enemies.
D)   None of the above

Question 19

In individualistic cultures the display of emotions tends to be ______________ than in collective cultures.

Accepted Answer

A)   more shallow
B)   less shallow
C)   more intense
D)   less intense

Question 20

After years of life as a happy father and devoted husband, former bank robber Stephen Reid robbed a bank and shot at a police officer. Which is the best social psychological explanation for this puzzling change?

Accepted Answer

A)   Reid was a bank robber all along and only pretended to be a good family man.
B)   Reid's Id overruled his Superego.
C)   Our actions depend on our dispositions as well as our social situations.
D)   True androgyny is impossible.

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