Exam 4: Methods for Studying Culture and Psychology

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

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

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

Reference-group effects in cross-cultural research occur because

Using cultural priming,come up with a within-groups study design involving American and Japanese participants that examines whether independent or interdependent mind-sets affect their feelings of connectedness with their friends (ignore response biases as a consideration for this question).

Your new research project is to examine the extent to which a culture values freedom.You decided that the simplest way to measure this is to use culture-level measures.As such,which of the following would you do?

What is a strategy for avoiding problems with the reference-group effect?

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

Dr.H wants to unpackage the cultural difference between Japanese and American horror movies.What is Dr.H trying to find out?

Tom comes from a family of cattle herders,while Jack comes from a rice-farming family.They are both recruited to participate in a study that uses a within-subjects manipulation.In the study,the researchers want to see how angry they would get if they were insulted versus if they were not insulted.Anger was measured using blood pressure.Based on Nisbett and Cohen's research on the culture of honor,draw a graph of what you would expect the data to look like.

An advantage of the situation-sampling method is that it

In your initial study,you noticed that your participants tended to say they strongly agreed with all of the items on your questionnaire.When doing a follow-up study,how would you tell that your original participants suffered from acquiescence bias?

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?

You are hoping to study how people from Denmark and people from Russia differ on levels of happiness.You are concerned about your study being susceptible to the reference-group effect.What is one way of measuring happiness that lessens your study's susceptibility?

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 _____________ manipulation,has low _____________,and the prime is classified as a(n)_____________ variable.