PYS 3 EXAM

2.During a professional ice hockey game, fans from around the world saw Tony Bertram, a professional hockey player, punch an unsuspecting player in the face and throw him onto the ice. According to analytic versus holistic thinking styles, which of the following do you think is most likely to happen?

b) East Asians will blame Tony's family problems, and Westerners will blame Tony's nasty personality.

Which of the following examples most accurately portrays research on cultural differences in communication style?

b) Endo, who is Japanese, cannot reach his friend, Tanaka, because Tanaka's cell phone is off, but Endo has great difficulty leaving messages on Tanaka's voice mail.

Which of the following people would NOT be considered universally to be physically attractive?

b) a person with an average-size body

1.Schacter and Singer's study of emotions found that people

b) attend to situational cues to interpret their bodily sensations.

You are walking with your friend when both of you see a person on the street trip and fall. You think that the person is a clumsy person, but your friend thinks the person was distracted by something across the street. In this situation, which of the following more accurately captures what you are engaging in?

b) dispositional attribution

With which of the following is a low context culture most closely associated?

b) explicit communication

Which of the following products or services does NOT capitalize on universal bases of attraction?

b) photo-editing software that can mix different body shapes together

According to the propinquity effect, which of the people below are most likely to become friends?

c) Amy and Alyssa, who meet each other at the bus stop every day

.Lloyd is politically very conservative, scores highly on the "loyalty to in-group" moral institution, and greatly respects hierarchy. Thus, there would be a good cultural fit between Lloyd and a culture that is characterized by

c) Gemeinschaft.

26.What is Adams's argument for why West Africans are more concerned about enemies than North Americans?

c) North Americans only create relationships if they stand to benefit from them, and enemies are not a benefit to them

At Kohlberg's preconventional level of moral development, someone is considered moral when he

c) chooses to do a good deed because he is likely to be recognized by doing so.

A classroom is full of European-Canadians and Chinese-Canadians, and they are all watching a movie that is intended to induce a lot of anger. According to research oncultural differences in anger responses, one would expect

c) differences in the rate at which their physiological responses will return to baseline

Sending your boss a Christmas card after he had first sent you one would be seen as an example of

c) equality matching.

Because Juan Daniel, who is Latin American, scores very highly on a measure of simpático,

c) he socializes with people more than his European-American friends do.

You and a friend run into each other on the street, and you see that he is carrying a fish that he has just caught. You would love to get that fish home and cook it to make your wife happy. You and your friend agree that the fish is equivalent to the corn you are carrying in your bag. The two of you then exchange the fish for the corn before heading off to your respective homes. What is this an example of?

c) market pricing

10According to the James-Lange theory of emotions, which of the following precedes an emotion in a scenario where Ed meets his boss for the first time?

c) the profuse perspiration that Ed experiences upon seeing his boss

Shawn displays something that can be characterized as being a ritualized display of excitement. What does this imply?

d) People from other cultures likely cannot recognize that he is excited.

According to the textbook, progressive and orthodox religious groups are fundamentally different from each other in terms of how they reason about moral issues. True or false?

d) True—they abide by different codes of ethics when reasoning about moral issues.

Yasmin is an executive at a company, and she wants to hire the most creative applicant for a new position. She decides to hire someone from an individualistic culture because she feels that individualists are more creative than collectivists. You _____________ with her statement because _____________.

d) disagree; individualists and collectivists are better at different types of creative thinking

Jinro walks along the same street every day and sees the same red tree swing during his walk. The more he is exposed to this tree swing, the

d) more pleasant affect he will experience when processing it.

Homare is a Japanese student and Heidi is a Canadian student. They are both trying to make new friends. Given the findings from research comparing Japanese and Canadians, we would expect that

a) Heidi, more so than Homare, would like a new person who is similar to her.

28.Sanjay is an Indian male who has been in an arranged marriage for fifteen years. Sana is an Indian female who has been in a love marriage for more than ten years. Based on research by Gupta and Singh, which person is likely to be happier?

a) Sanjay

Just for fun, Mary decided to tape the corners of her mouth so that she would appear to be smiling for the duration of that day. According to the facial feedback hypothesis, which of the following emotions is Mary most likely to experience as a result?

a) happiness

At Kohlberg's conventional level of moral development, someone is considered moral when she a)refrains from stealing from a store because it is illegal.

a) refrains from stealing from a store because it is illegal.

.Which of the following is NOT one of Ekman's basic emotions?

a) shame

1.Analytic thinking is best characterized by

a) taxonomic categorization.

In class, we discussed the poem on friends and enemies. Based on our discussion, people from collectivist cultures feel more threatened by their in-group because

a) they cannot choose specific in-group members to be their friends

.Which best summarizes the findings in the Heejung Kim study on talking and thinking?

a) thinking aloud impaired the performance of Asian-Americans

A certain country has been experiencing huge gains in its economy. Based on research covered in this textbook about economic effects, which of the following is the most likely consequence of these gains?

a)More people in that country will be moving into the cities.

Research reveals that, in contrast to Westerners, the most desired kinds of emotional states among East Asians are

a)low arousal positive states.

You live in a culture in which people grow their own food and rarely have to buy food from others. One day, a researcher from the United States asks you to play the Dictator Game with a stranger. You are given $50 and you must decide how much to give to the stranger. Based on all the information given in this question, which of the following amounts are you NOT likely to give?

e) $25

.Empirically, arranged marriages are terrible because no one is ever satisfied with their marriages. True or false?

e) False—arranged marriages that last years have greater marital satisfaction than love marriages.

If a Japanese and an American were each contacted by a stranger for help, we would expect that the

e) Japanese would trust the stranger less than the American.

.Mandia met a friend called Martina in university. Martina's boyfriend likes to go to bars to drink, and makes Martina go to bars with him. Mandia knows that Martina's boyfriend makes her go to bars, but still thinks that Martina goes because she likes to go to bars. The term that best describes Mandia's thoughts is

e) fundamental attribution error.

The relation between money and happiness is that

e) money is positively related to happiness at low levels of wealth, but once a certain level of money has been achieved, adding more wealth does not increase happiness.

People who are especially field dependent tend to be

e)holistic thinkers.