Exam 13: Culture and Social Behavior Self and Identity

It suggests humans have unique cognitive abilities,so they are the only animals that are aware of the fact that they will die eventually.They are afraid,terrified in fact,of that inevitable death.

Which one is a definition of self-concept?

Recent studies (described also in Chapter 9)demonstrate that bicultural individuals have multiple cultural systems in their minds,and access one or the other depending on the context in which they are in.This is known as

____ refer(s)to the discrete,observable,objective,and behavioral aspects of human activities in which people engage related to culture.What does this refer to?

Cultural reaffirmation effect is the amplified endorsement of home cultural values by bicultural individuals.

What is correct in terms of the independent construal of self?

Which one of the following statements is incorrect?

What can we learn through the statement below? "From this perspective,then,each individual human's name and identity,family and social identifications,goals and aspirations,occupation and title,are humanly created adornments draped over an animal that,in the cosmic scheme of things,may be no more significant or enduring than any individual potato,pineapple,or porcupine.But it is this elaborate drapery that provides us with the fortitude to carry on despite the uniquely human awareness of our mortal fate" (Pyszczynski,Greenberg,Solomon,Arndt,& Schimel,2004).

The concept of self as "sociable" maybe central to one's ________,enjoying a special status as a salient identity or ___________.Fill in the blanks respectively.

Which one of the following is inaccurate?

According to Matsumoto et al.(1996),cultural values of people of different cultures differ depending on the specific context in which they are in.

Which one of the Cousins (1989)findings is incorrect?

What does the following statement explain? Parent-child sleeping arrangements are an example of a cultural practice,representing a specific way in which people of a culture manage their emotional expressions in a social context.

Which one of the following statements is incorrect?

Which of the following is correct?

With regard to the independent construal of self,individuals focus less on ____ than internal attributes.

Who used the independent vs.interdependent self-construal theory to describe two fundamentally different senses of self ?

The concept of____ is a cognitive generalization about who one believes one is,and an important and integral part of one's cultural worldviews.What concept is this?

An individual is not recognized as a member by the group to which he or she identifies him/herself.

This is the tendency to attribute one's successes to personal factors and one's failures to situational factors (Bradley,1978)and a bias in which people tend to attribute good deeds and successes to their own internal attributes,but attribute bad deeds or failures to external factors.