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

Shalom Schwartz and Lilach Sagiv (1995) identified ________ as the two basic dimensions that they believe organize universal values.

Judgments of cultural complexity are fairly straightforward.

Members of Asian cultures find it more acceptable to deal with controversial issues in large public meetings than do individuals from the United States.

The United States is a(n) ________ culture.

Concepts like amae and yuan might be ________, whereas concepts like duty and obligations to the group might be _______.

According to Cohen, Nisbett, Bowdle, and Schwartz (1996), the American South has a culture that involves elaborate displays of mutual respect. This idea is called the ________.

Which of the following people is likely to be the most individualistic?

Ethnocentrism is the tendency to ________.

About 25 percent of the population should be left-handed.

According to Park and Peterson (2010), which attribute is a strength of the heart?

Self-enhancement is more common in individualist than in collectivist cultures.

If less than 2 percent of a country's population exhibits left-handedness, then cross-cultural researchers might say that this is likely a(n) ________ culture.

Research suggests that Americans may be more likely to recall the larger context of pictures as compared to individuals from Japan.

Define the newly proposed dimensions of honor, face, and dignity. What conditions are thought to facilitate the development of honor, face, and dignity cultures?

We are most likely to commit ethnocentrism when the "real" nature of the situation ________.

What conclusion emerges from item response theory (IRT) analyses that are used to evaluate the validity of cross-cultural comparisons of common personality measures?

Cross-cultural psychology has examined differences in the way that members of various cultures think. Some research suggests that people from collectivist cultures think more ________ than those from individualistic cultures.

Countries with low average levels of self-esteem also tend to have high rates of ________.

There are about 557 trait words in the Chinese language.

According to the textbook, what behavior led to a Danish mother's arrest in New York?