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

What is culture? Why are personality psychologists interested in cross-cultural differences? What are some of the reasons why this is a difficult topic of study?

Individuals from which country would be the least willing to describe themselves in contradictory terms?

Vertical societies tend to believe that individuals are importantly different from each other.

One of the two aspects of the measure of bicultural identity integration (BII) is the degree to which bicultural individuals ________.

Cultural complexity is much like the individual personality trait of ________.

Why might researchers want to move beyond the collectivism and individualism distinction in the cross-cultural study of personality? What are some limitations of this approach and what modifications have been proposed to broaden the scope of this work?

If members of two cultures experience the same emotions, seek the same goals, and organize their thoughts in comparable ways, then the two cultures ________.

Indians (individuals from India) prefer to place an X next to the part of the form that does NOT apply.

David McClelland would argue that a culture that emphasizes children's stories such as "The Little Engine That Could" has a high need for________.

John argues that a particular culture's distinctive view of reality simply exists and believes that there is no way to meaningfully address the origin of cultural differences. John seems to subscribe to which philosophical tradition?

Components of ideas that are particular to a specific culture are called ________, and components that are universal across cultures are called ________.

According to the text, which of the following is considered to have an individualist-horizontal society?

What are the reasons why cultural differences in personality might be exaggerated?

Women in the United States are not more collectivist than men.

A child learns about his or her native culture through the process of acculturation.

What condition or conditions seem to facilitate the development of honor cultures?

The outgroup homogeneity bias refers to the tendency to view one's own group as having members that differ widely from each other while believing individuals from other groups are "all the same."

According to the text, which of the following is considered to have a collectivist-vertical society?

Studies of cross-cultural gender differences in the Big Five tend to find that ________.

The American South has a separate "culture of honor," distinct from the rest of the United States, which requires members to be more tolerant of insults.