Exam 4: Methods for Studying Culture and Psychology

Dr.G is conducting a study to see whether people can be made to think in terms of East Asian and Western thoughts.Using college students in two cultures as participants,and using a very insensitive cultural prime for each participant,Dr.G measured how much they believe in Chinese medicine.A sample of the dataset is given below. This study employs a ________________,has ________________,and the prime is classified as a(n)____________________.

You want to do a study to examine whether Greek participants view their parenting experiences as being different from those of Chinese participants,and vice versa.What is the most appropriate methodology for testing this?

The idea that a theory should have as few assumptions as possible is most accurately called

Which of the following is NOT an example of a culture-level measure?

One advantage of experimental methods over survey methods in cultural psychological research is that

If an independent variable has more variance,is it more difficult or easier to detect an effect on the dependent variable?

What is a problem with using the "back-translation" method?

You want to study how large people's faces are in Cultures X and Y.To do this,you simply ask people,"On a scale of 1 (small)to 10 (large),how large is your face?" To your surprise,most people in Culture X think they have small faces,even though their faces are much larger than those in Culture Y.Conversely,most people in Culture Y think they have large faces.How can you address this problem of trying to assess cultural differences in how large people's faces are?

After examining surveys you collected from Culture X,you find that people's responses tend to gather toward the center of your scale.What is this phenomenon known as?

After examining the surveys you collected from people in Culture A,you find that people tend to answer "yes" to all the questions,regardless of the content.How do you deal with this problem in the future so this doesn't recur?

After examining surveys you handed out in a given culture,you find that many people in the culture tend to agree with both the positively worded item "I strongly support the prime minister's policies," and the negatively worded item "I disagree with the prime minister's policies." What is this an example of?

The tendency for people living in conditions with a real threat of starvation to report valuing food more than those living in conditions where food is abundant is an example of

While helping your colleague analyze data,you realize that she has turned the participants' responses into z-scores.Based on the response biases in the textbook,which one is she most likely to be trying to account for?

If you wanted to test the universality of a psychological phenomenon,which of the following should you do?

Dr.G is conducting a study to see whether people can be made to think in terms of East Asian and Western thoughts.Using very insensitive cultural primes for each participant,Dr.G measured how much they believe in Chinese medicine.A sample of the dataset is given below. This study employs a ________________,has ________________,and "belief in Chinese medicine" is classified as a(n)____________________.

Which of the following is one problem especially associated with studies using WEIRD samples?

Your study doesn't have enough power.To maximally increase power in your study,which of the following should you do?

Reference-group effects in cross-cultural research occur because

A group of researchers want to learn about the characteristics of home-cooking recipes in Culture X.What is this type of method an example of?

If you wanted to do a study using a within-groups manipulation to examine whether European Canadians can be made to think like Canadians and East Asians,which of the following would be the MOST relevant and appropriate methodology?