Deck 10: Living in Multicultural Worlds

Question 1

Your friend immigrated more than a decade ago.While walking on the streets with your friend,he suddenly encounters a store that reminds him of his heritage culture.Which of the following is likeliest to result from that?

A)Your friend will,at that moment,choose to develop more of a separation acculturation strategy.
B)Your friend is more likely to think in ways consistent with his heritage culture,at least temporarily.
C)Your friend will be prevented from entering the adjustment phase of acculturation,if he hadn't entered it already.
D)Your friend will experience heightened acculturative stress.
E)Your friend will temporarily feel like he was less acculturated than he had ever been.

Answer 1

Your friend is more likely to think in ways consistent with his heritage culture,at least temporarily.

Question 2

The findings from acculturation research are less coherent than many other topics largely because

A)you can't put people through an acculturation experiment-it is all correlational research.
B)there are no validated acculturation measures.
C)people's circumstances vary so much it makes it difficult to identify common patterns.
D)there is no consensual definition on what acculturation means.
E)immigrants do not like to have their experiences studied by researchers.

Answer 2

people's circumstances vary so much it makes it difficult to identify common patterns.

Question 3

Kartika is a professor who is trying to decide which applicant to accept as a graduate student.She wants a graduate student who will come up with creative ideas.According to Maddux and Galinsky,which of the following applicants should have the most creative ideas?

A)Meanne,who comes from a collectivistic society
B)Kharah,who has visited and observed many cultures around the world
C)Laura,who comes from an individualistic society
D)Kate,who is very extraverted
E)None of these applicants can be said to have ideas that are more creative than the others.

Answer 3

None of these applicants can be said to have ideas that are more creative than the others.

Question 4

Given current research on acculturation and health,which of the following would you expect?

A)Jessica acculturated more quickly than Jasmine to the host culture,which means Jessica will likely live longer.
B)How much acculturative stress Maggie experiences is unrelated to her overall health.
C)Candice has acculturated to the host culture,which means she may develop unhealthy habits that lead to adverse health outcomes.
D)John has decided to completely take on the host culture while ignoring his heritage culture,which means he will have the most positive health outcomes.
E)The more friends Harold has,the more acculturated he will be,and the better his health definitely will be.

Question 5

Bjorn is a nonvisible minority member,while Trang is a member of a visible minority.Trang is more likely than Bjorn to

A)experience an L-shaped acculturation curve.
B)have his acculturative stress be influenced by his initial experiences in the host culture.
C)have a personality with poor cultural fit.
D)have separation acculturation strategies.
E)use blending.

Question 6

Which of the following is reliably associated with reduced acculturative stress?

A)extraversion
B)an interdependent view of self
C)an independent view of self
D)conscientiousness
E)cultural fitness

Question 7

A difference between frame-switching and code-switching is that code-switching is

A)more likely to be a conscious process than frame-switching.
B)more common among minorities living within a culture.
C)more associated with stereotype threat.
D)more pronounced for those who are high in bicultural identity integration.
E)more likely to be scene among second-generation immigrants.

Question 8

The Kingdom of Zorblax is about to colonize a bunch of aboriginal tribes living on a foreign continent.The culture of Zorblax is characterized by a system in which people live on collective farms and take what they need from those farms.Which of the following foreign aboriginal tribes will experience the least amount of acculturative stress under the Kingdom of Zorblax?

A)the Ngouma,a coastal tribe that is accustomed to fishing for food
B)the Divan,a tribe that lives in the forest and subsists on hunting large animals
C)the Moche,an individualistic tribe that engages in social facilitation
D)the Remala,a tribe that is very extraverted
E)the Poranga,a tribe that heavily engages in communal sharing

Question 9

Which of the following people is the best example of blending?

A)Loni is able to jump back and forth between her Hawaiian heritage cultural views and her Texan host cultural views.
B)Dongraegu has embraced both the cultural values of his Korean heritage culture as well as those of his Canadian host culture.
C)Bjorn is from a Swedish town where many people immigrate,leading to a very multicultural atmosphere.
D)Sarah gained a much more interdependent self-construal after spending the last ten years in China,albeit less than that shown by Chinese.
E)Jürgen has decided to accept the cultural values of his American host culture to fit in better,disregarding values from his German heritage culture.

Question 10

A tendency to view avoiding losses as important is

A)more common among people who are thinking about a team's performance.
B)associated with a separation acculturation strategy.
C)associated with an independent view of self.
D)more common among biculturals.
E)characteristic of someone with a promotion orientation.

Question 11

Self-esteem is related to acculturation in that

A)the more acculturated an individual is,the higher is their self-esteem.
B)people with high self-esteem tend to acculturate more quickly than people with low self-esteem.
C)people's self-esteem comes to approximate the self-esteem norms in the host culture as they acculturate.
D)separation attitudes are associated with the highest self-esteem.
E)greater self-esteem hinders one's ability to acculturate to the host culture.

Question 12

Given the current research on personality and acculturation,you can predict that

A)Jaedong,who is introverted,will acculturate more successfully than his friend Sehoon,who is extraverted.
B)Jaedong,who is extraverted,will acculturate more successfully than his friend Sehoon,who is introverted.
C)Jaedong,who is extraverted,will proceed through a more severe period of culture shock on the acculturation curve compared with his friend Sehoon,who is introverted.
D)Jaedong,who is introverted,will fare worse early on in the acculturation process,whereas his friend Sehoon,who is extraverted,will fare worse over the long run.
E)None of these statements is true.

Question 13

Imagine that Georgi moved to Canada from Bulgaria about a year ago.We might expect that he is

A)having a more difficult time acculturating than his neighbor,who moved from a small tribe from the Amazon.
B)adjusting to Canadian life,and is fully integrated into the community.
C)having the time of his life,and is reveling in his new and exotic home.
D)struggling,as he feels a bit homesick and has not yet made many Canadian friends.
E)has already picked up curling as his favorite sport.

Question 14

Stereotype threat occurs because

A)it is damaging to a person's self-esteem if others share negative stereotypes of his or her group.
B)people are at risk for sometimes acting in ways consistent with stereotypes and thereby proving the stereotype and creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.
C)everyone believes in the content of stereotypes,even if they won't consciously admit it.
D)people apply stereotypes to groups that they don't like.
E)stereotypes are vulnerable to being disproved by counter-stereotypical information.

Question 15

Stereotype threat is

A)largely in people's minds,and does not affect actual behavior.
B)limited to the experiences of racial groups that are discriminated against.
C)the result of people being unaware of the stereotypes that exist for their groups.
D)experienced most acutely by people low in bicultural identity integration.
E)measured using dependent variables such as task performance and physiological signs.

Question 16

Varun is a Fijian immigrant to Canada.After observing him over time,his friends felt like he wasn't really participating in Canadian culture,nor did he seem to have much to do with his Fijian roots.Which of the following best describes Varun?

A)L-shaped curve
B)adjustment
C)separation strategy
D)marginalization strategy
E)culture shock

Question 17

Which of the following scenarios would best predict Basdeo using frame-switching more than Mel?

A)if Basdeo adopts an integration strategy while Mel adopts an assimilative strategy
B)if Basdeo were a bicultural and Mel were a monocultural
C)if Basdeo were low in bicultural identity integration and Mel were high in bicultural identity integration
D)if Basdeo were more extraverted than Mel
E)if Basdeo were more conscientious than Mel

Question 18

Which of the following people is most likely to experience an L-shaped acculturation curve?

A)Crystal-Joy,who has moved to a culturally homogeneous society
B)Lydia,who has an interdependent self-concept,while people in the host culture have an independent self-concept
C)Magda,who is feeling a lot of cultural distance between her heritage culture and the host culture
D)Timothy,who identifies with his heritage culture but not his host culture
E)Noriko,who habitually engages in frame-switching

Question 19

The First Nations tribe that has been most successful (of the ones studied)at adjusting to mainstream Canadian settler traditions has been

A)the Eastern Cree.
B)the Tsimshiam.
C)the Carrier.
D)the Haida.
E)the Mohawk.

Question 20

Jee-Yeong is a bicultural who has integrated aspects of her Korean heritage culture and her Canadian culture into her everyday life.Compared with other Korean-Canadian biculturals who haven't done the same,Jee-Yeong

A)will show less acculturative stress.
B)is more likely to score high on measures of cultural fit.
C)is less likely to acquire undesirable cultural habits.
D)will engage in more frame-switching.
E)will more likely adopt an assimilative strategy.

Question 21

Yamazonia is a society dominated by homosexual women.Based on this information,which of the following people living in Yamazonia are most likely to identify with their group membership?

A)Jayden,a member of the ruling class
B)Jared,a male worker
C)Justice,a homosexual female
D)Jordan,a social worker
E)Jamie,a nonvisible minority

Question 22

How does cultural distance differ from cultural fit?

A)Cultural fit refers to culture-culture matching of variables,whereas cultural distance refers to person-culture matching of variables.
B)Cultural distance refers to culture-culture matching of variables,whereas cultural fit refers to person-culture matching of variables.
C)Cultural fit refers to cultures that endorse an assimilative acculturation strategy.
D)Cultural distance refers to cultures that endorse a separation acculturation strategy.
E)The two are different ways of communicating the same concept.

Question 23

Code-switching is

A)an implicit response,just like frame-switching.
B)a conscious response,just like frame-switching.
C)an implicit response,unlike frame-switching.
D)a conscious response,unlike frame-switching.
E)a response that only occurs for Latinos in the United States.

Question 24

Which of the following has NOT been known to lead to negative health consequences?

A)code-switching
B)assimilation strategy
C)separation strategy
D)marginalization strategy
E)more positive attitudes toward the host culture

Question 25

When will you NOT see an adjustment phase after experiencing culture shock?

A)when the person endorses an integration acculturation strategy
B)when the person endorses an assimilation acculturation strategy
C)when the person is very introverted
D)when the person moves to a homogenous society
E)when the person has a very interdependent self-construal

Question 26

Quang Giáp is from a society where people tend to attribute the behaviors of others as being the result of external pressures.After living in the United States for many years,however,Quang Giáp often finds himself increasingly attributing the behaviors of others as being the result of internal factors.What is this an example of?

A)cultural fit
B)blending
C)marginalization
D)frame-switching
E)cultural distance

Question 27

Idra,a European university student,has moved to another country indefinitely to start a new career.He is currently experiencing anxiety,helplessness,and homesickness.Based on research on acculturation curves,what do you expect to happen with Idra next?

A)He will maintain these feelings if the host culture is homogenous.
B)He will maintain these feelings if the host culture is extraverted.
C)He will bounce back and adjust to the new culture if the host culture is homogenous.
D)He will bounce back and adjust to the new culture if the host culture is extraverted.
E)The answer cannot be determined from the information given.

Question 28

According to the textbook,which of the following has NOT been noted as a result of becoming more acculturated to the host culture?

A)increased rate of obesity
B)increased delinquency behavior
C)decreased risk of coronary heart disease
D)decreased discrimination
E)decreased school performance

Question 29

Your friend Basdeo would like to become more creative.Which of the following would you recommend to him?

A)go observe another culture
B)be more extraverted
C)adopt an L-shape acculturation curve
D)go to a culture that is culturally distant from his current culture
E)You would not recommend any of these choices.

Question 30

Your friend Pedram is planning to immigrate somewhere and wants to go to a place where he'll have the best chance of adjusting to the new culture.Which of the following should you recommend as being the best place for him?

A)a society that is homogenous,where everyone has a well-defined role
B)a society that espouses values that match Pedram's personality
C)a society in which he will be a visible minority
D)a society that encourages people to code-switch
E)a society in which he will be a nonvisible minority