Test Bank For Culture and Psychology, 5th Edition

Test Bank For Culture and Psychology, 5th Edition

Chapter 1 

An Introduction to Culture and Psychology

1. What distinguishes cultural psychology from mainstream psychology?

1. The phenomenon of interest and study
2. The interest in a narrow range of phenomena related to human behavior
3. Topic specific cross-cultural research methods
4. The interest in understanding cultural influences on behavior

ANS: d REF: Cultural Psychology – Psychology with a Cultural Perspective

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2. Which of the following is correct?

1. Groups are less efficient because they divide labor.

1. Morality, a uniquely human product, is present from birth.
2. Humans and animals have the ability to continually build upon improvements.
3. 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.

1. True
2. False

ANS: a REF: What is Culture?

4. That psychologists and laypersons often equate ethnicity with race ____.

1. is incorrect
2. is problematic
3. is arbitrary
4. 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.

1. True
2. False

ANS: b REF: What is Culture?

 6. Which of the following statements is true?

1. Society is a system of interrelationships among people.
2. Only human animals are social and have societies.
3. Culture and society are both about the meanings and information that are associated with social networks.
4. 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?

1. Race can be genetically proven
2. Race is only controversial in the lay community
3. Studies of genetic systems suggest that racially defined groups are more similar than different
4. Anthropologists use skin color, hair, and other physical characteristics to define race

ANS: c REF: What is Culture?