Exam 14: Cultural Variation in Experience, Behavior, and Personality

________ occurs when someone moves to a new place and gradually picks up the culture of the new location.

In Triandis's model, the distinctive tasks a culture needs to accomplish and the physical layout and resources of its land are called the culture's ________.

According to the text, what term describes cultures that have only a few socially sanctioned goals and only a few ways to achieve these goals?

The individualist versus collectivist distinction is analogous to the distinction between ________ with respect to personal values.

________ occurs when a child picks up the cultural influences of the place where he or she grows up.

Singapore is both ethnically heterogeneous and culturally tight.

Which city in the United States had the lowest "heart" score, according to a recent survey?

The holier-than-thou effect is most likely to occur in members from what country?

According to recent cross-cultural research, bilingual individuals ________.

Studies of endogenous personality descriptors in China and Spain seem to suggest that there are ________ factors in each lexicon.

All languages have terms for traits such as talkative, timid, and diligent.

Members from which country would be most likely to self-enhance?

Psychologists who are concerned that the results of contemporary empirical research may not apply to all people everywhere are questioning the ________ of those results.

David McClelland would argue that a culture that tells stories emphasizing community and social bonds would have a high need for ________.

According to Triandis, ________ societies assume that all persons are essentially equal.

According to Triandis, cultures that tolerate very little deviation from cultural norms are high in ________.

According to the text, which characteristic of cultures might be the most difficult to judge?

The universal components of an idea are called emics.

Cultural tightness is analogous to the personality traits of ________.

Although seven personality dimensions emerge from an analysis of the Spanish and Chinese lexicon, the seven dimensions are somewhat different.