1.
Jarad wants to make sure that he does not raise children who are susceptible to the Müller-Lyer illusion. As such, he should
a) first establish whether that susceptibility is an existential universal.
b) adopt the perspective of a general psychologist.
c) make sure his children are low on ethnocentrism.
d) raise his children in places where corners are uncommon.
e) put his children through the Russian cultural-historical school of psychology.
2.
In the Sambian context, the cultural emphasis on boys to go through rituals such as piercing their noses and thrashing them with sticks suggest that, for the Sambia,
a) men must work hard to maintain their innate maleness.
b) women need to work toward obtaining a femaleness essence.
c) pain is not associated with masculinity.
d) masculinity is something that boys gain from certain behaviors.
e) there is also a strong emphasis on sexuality being rigid and unchangeable.
3.
Which child(ren) below demonstrate(s) the existence of theory of mind?
a) a child who hides his toys so his mother will not find them
b) a child who likes to ride the family dog like a rodeo bull
c) a child who assumes that everyone knows everything she knows
d) all of these children
e) none of these children
4.
Which of the following (historically inaccurate) examples best demonstrates the process of the ratchet effect?
a) Ke$ha brushes her teeth with a bottle of whiskey, but Lady Gaga gives her a tube of toothpaste because it cleans teeth better.
b) Wolverine and Thor independently create the first hammers. Wolverine’s hammer is simply a rock, whereas Thor’s hammer has a metal head and a long handle.
c) Wayne Gretzky demonstrates how to use a hockey stick to shoot pucks, and everyone then tries to figure out how the stick can be used to shoot pucks.
d) Marx creates a new political ideology, Lenin builds on that ideology, and Stalin further expands on it.
e) Rafael Nadal demonstrates how to use a tennis racquet to hit a ball, and everyone mimics Rafael’s movements with his or her racquet.
5.
Your friends are debating whether culture has been changing or not over the last few decades. Which of the following responses is NOT supported by research?
a) It has been changing—people are scoring higher on the Raven’s Matrices Test.
b) It has not been changing—the slave trade that occurred centuries ago in Africa still affects their trust in others until this day.
c) It has been changing—greater intercultural contact has changed all cultures that interact with each other.
d) It has not been changing—collectivistic cultures have, overall, remained just as collectivistic as they were decades ago.
e) It has been changing—there has been greater tribalism over the last several decades.
6.Which of the following is true about cultural change in the United States?
a) Elderly Americans are less socially engaged now than they were forty years ago.
b) On average, Americans are less likely to belong to formal organizations than they were forty years ago.
c) Americans socialize more now than they did forty years ago.
d) Americans are more trusting now than they were forty years ago.
e) Few Americans bowl now, whereas forty years ago the vast majority of American adults bowled.
7.
Reference-group effects in cross-cultural research occur because
a) people use social comparison to evaluate themselves.
b) people do not really know how they feel.
c) people from different cultures have different response styles.
d) people value what they are most in need of.
e) some words do not translate well into other languages.
8.
Dr. H wants to unpackage the cultural difference between Japanese and American horror movies. What is Dr. H trying to find out?
a) Japanese and Americans’ opinions about Japanese and American horror movies
b) what the Japanese think about American horror movies, and vice versa
c) how much statistical power this difference has
d) the underlying reasons for this difference
e) the generalizability of this difference
9.
If you wanted to do a study using a within-groups manipulation to examine whether European Canadians can be made to think like Canadians and East Asians, which of the following would be the most relevant and appropriate methodology?
a) random assignment
b) standardization
c) between-groups manipulation
d) acculturation
e) cultural priming
