Exam 3: Methods for Studying Culture and Psychology

Suppose that in the future, worldwide climate continues to become more extreme and variable.What will be the most likely effect of this climate change on culture?

Which of the following depicts an evoked culture?

Research on the rise of individualism shows that books published in the United States over the past 200 years have shown an increase in words such as

Based on research about cultural transmission, which of the following YouTube advertisements is the LEAST likely to be spread to other people?

According to Jared Diamond, why were the germs brought by the Spaniards so much deadlier to the Incans than the Incan germs were to the Spaniards?

On Planet Belia, two civilizations, the Edinia and the Elash, have coexisted for centuries in the same environmental context.Both civilizations have marriage rituals (for this question, assume that marriage rituals can only be either monogamous or polygamous).You know that Edinians believe that polygamy is generally better than monogamy, so there are more polygamists than monogamists in Edinia.To determine whether evoked culture or transmitted culture plays a bigger role in affecting marriage rituals, you visit Edinia and Elash and try to find the proportion of marriages that are monogamous versus polygamous.Draw a bar graph of what your data would look like if transmitted culture plays a bigger role than evoked culture.

The examples of native Hawaiians having no large indigenous mammals in Hawaii and of the !Kung being surrounded by large animals in the Kalahari Desert are given in the textbook to illustrate which of the following?

Army recruits are assigned randomly into specific sleeping quarters, where they do a lot of socializing during break time and at night.The political and religious attitudes of the recruits were surveyed before they were assigned sleeping quarters, and then again after several weeks of training.The generals found that the recruits' political and religious ideas tended to form clusters based on their sleeping quarters.Which of the following can best explain this situation?

Which of the following is true about cultural change in the United States?

Takeshi discovers a lot of tips and tricks to give him an easier time playing his favorite computer game, which he proceeds to show all his gaming buddies.Which of the following does this best illustrate?

East Asia is at a latitude that allows for the easy domestication of plants and animals, and having these conditions in early times propelled East Asian cultures to prosperity today.This scenario is an example of

Is conformity an example of evoked culture or transmitted culture, and why?

The textbook describes the relationship between IQ changes across time and television viewing as showing

A few townsfolk begin a movement promoting social harmony.Over time, they expand the movement by interacting with other townsfolk.Soon they have influenced the whole town to join in the movement.This best illustrates which of the following?

Emie believes that culture has been changing rapidly in recent years.What evidence best supports Emie's view?

Which of the following is an example of a proximate cause?

In a gardening competition, the Martians' steel tools allowed them to easily defeat the Earthlings, who used wooden tools.Which of the following best explains why the Martians defeated the Earthlings?

Justify why the cultural practice of eating seal blubber found among many indigenous populations in the Arctic is both an evoked culture and a transmitted culture.

Whereas the term ________ describes explanations using factors that occurred a long time ago, the term ________ describes explanations using factors that have direct and immediate effects.

Imagine a young woman named Jaymie who believes she should eat only red foods.Which of the following would be the best evidence that Jaymie's belief is a result of cultural evolution, not biological evolution?