Exam 12: Religion and Politics

Suppose that a person has very low levels of both Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Social Dominance Orientation.Which of the following is most likely to describe his or her personality accurately,with reference to the HEXACO personality factors?

What is the extent of assortative mating for religiosity,as expressed in terms of correlations between husbands' and wives' levels of religious belief and practice?

Which of the following statements best summarizes the results of investigations of the genetic and environmental influences on religiosity and political attitudes?

Which of the following is generally NOT found to show a (modest)positive association with religiosity?

Recall the review by Zuckerman et al. (2013)of studies examining religiousness and IQ.According to their findings,how do the average IQ scores of religious believers and nonbelievers compare?

Which of the following were considered problems of the original "F-scale",which were later corrected by Altemeyer (1981)in the development of the Right-Wing Authoritarianism scale? 1)The items of the F-scale assessed several characteristics that were not really related to authoritarianism,such as cynicism,superstition,and projection 2)The items of the F-scale tended to elicit the same responses from everyone,so there was very little variation in scale scores 3)The items of the F-scale were all keyed in the same direction,which meant that scale scores were influenced by acquiescent responding 4)The items of the F-scale were written in such complicated language that most respondents couldn't understand them.

Which of the following results did Altemeyer et al. (1988,1996)observe in his studies of stability and change in levels of Right-Wing Authoritarisnism (RWA)? 1)The average level of RWA tended to decrease during the college-age years 2)Among people in their early 30s,those who were parents tended to be higher in RWA than were those who were not parents 3)There was only a very small correlation between individuals' RWA levels in their late teens (i.e. ,beginning of college)and early 30s.

Recall that Saroglou (2011)described four basic components of religion.Which of the following is NOT among those four?

Which of the following political attitudes would be least likely to be correlated with Social Dominance Orientation?

Which of the following summarizes the relations between the personality factor of Openness to Experience and different aspects of religiosity?

Based on the two-dimensional system of social values as identified by Schwartz,which of the following pairs consists of two values that are nearly opposite to each other?

Recall that Altemeyer and Hunsberger (1997)compared two groups of people: Those who were nonreligious despite having been raised in a very religious household (i.e. ,the "Amazing Apostates"),and those who were very religious despite having been raised in a nonreligious househould (i.e. ,the "Amazing Believers").Which of the following statements is an accurate description of their results?

Recall that McCullough et al. (2003,2005)examined stability and change in religiosity across the life span.Which of the following statements about the results can be considered accurate? 1)The average level of religiosity showed a strong,steady increase across the life span 2)People who were raised in more-religious households tended to be more religious in adulthood than were people who were raised in less-religious households 3)People who were religious as young adults (compared with persons of the same age)tended to be religious in old age (compared with persons of the same age).

Which of the following describes the relations of Right-Wing Authoritarianism (RWA)and Social Dominance Orientation (SDO)with ethnocentric attitudes?