Global Psychology: Pre-test

Comparisons of Chinese and American responses to Rorschach projective tests reveal that

Chinese give answers that are based more on the whole card than do Americans.

Which of the following statements is NOT true about animals and culture?

Culture is found in several species of primates, but not in other animals.

Compared with those with an independent self, those with an interdependent self

None of the above.

Research with infants and the perception of phonemes reveals that

The lack of exposure to a language can lead people to be unable to distinguish between two phonemes from that language as they get older.

Frame-switching is more common

among biculturals than monoculturals.

Higher suicide rates among Canadian First Nation youths

are associated with their communities having few connections to their traditional past.

Which of the following does NOT appear to be a universal basis of physical attraction?

average-sized bodies

Arranged marriages are

less common in cultures with nuclear families as opposed to extended families.

When people from non-Western cultures complete the Twenty Statements Test, in contrast to people from Western cultures, they tend to

list more roles and relationships.

In contrast to individualistic cultures, in collectivistic cultures, well-being is predicted by

living up to cultural norms.

Which of the following appears to lead to the maintenance of "face."

prevention orientations

Analytic thinking is best characterized by:

taxonomic categorization

Depression is a condition

that has been found in every culture that has been explored.

The term "noun bias" refers to the phenomenon that:

the first words that children learn tend to be nouns rather than other kinds of words.

Which of the following would be an example of secondary control?

You convince yourself that taking the bus to work isn't so bad after all.