Quiz Questions

What is the key difference between an integration and an assimilation acculturation strategy?

The integration strategy has more positive attitudes toward heritage culture than the assimilation strategy.

Which of the following migrants is most likely to pursue separation or marginalized acculturation strategies?

Trang, who looks physically distinct from the majority in the host culture.

Cultures that tend to encourage self-consistency also tend to support the belief that success comes from

innate abilities

When comparing East Asian mothers with American mothers, which of the following statements is true?

East Asian mothers are more likely to focus their children's attention on their academic failures than mothers in the United States.

In the study on Australian and Japanese monoracial and biracial faces, which of the following was the main finding?

Both the Australian and Japanese sample perceived the most average biracial face as the most attractive.

Heine and colleagues (2011) studied immigrants in Vancouver, Canada, who came from Hong Kong. They found that identification with Canadian culture depended on how long immigrants had lived in Canada,

But only if they came as children

Which of the following people is most likely to experience an L-shaped acculturation curve?

Crystal-joy, who has moved to a culturally homogenous society.

Given the current research on personality and acculturation, you can predict that:

Jaedong, who is introverted, will acculturate more successfully in an introverted country than Sehoon, who is extraverted.

A research study by Williams and Best (1990) examined gender equality by asking men and woman from 14 different countries to answer questions about how each gender should act. Which of the following statements is an accurate description of their findings?

In most of the countries surveyed, men had more traditional views on gender than women.

According to research by Shweder and others, the most important consideration in deciding on sleeping arrangements in both Indian and American families is

Incest avoidance

If Tina, a 2-year old from Toronto shows noun bias, this would imply that

More of the words she uses will be nouns, rather than verbs

Given what you know about cultural influences on the Twenty-Statements Test (TST), which of the following is most likely to respond primarily by describing his or her important roles and responsibilities within their family?

Naserian, a Kenyan woman from the Masai tribe.

Independent and interdependent self-views differently influence how people engage with close others as opposed to strangers. Considering this phenomenon, which of the following statements accurately reflects this difference?

People with independent (vs Interdependent) self-views are more likely to trust a stranger.

Leticia knows Spanish as her native language and learned English as a very young child. Amy knows English as her native language and learned Spanish as an adult. Which of the following is true?

The same location of Leticia's brain will be activated when she processes English or Spanish.

According to evolutionary theory, facial structures such as clear complexion and bilateral symmetry are considered universally attractive because:

They are believed to indicate a person's good health and therefore imply that future offspring are also likely to be healthy and survive.