Week Three Open Book Test

Statement

Answer

1. All cultures share a common need to solve similar human problems.

True

2. American psychologists tend to treat their research as being universally applicable.

True

3. Horizontal relationships, such as relationships with coworkers and peers, are more important in individualistic cultures than collectivist cultures.

False

4. Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are included in the Asian American ethnic group.

True

5. The largest minority group in the United States is currently African Americans.

False

6. To experience stereotype threat, one needs to accept that the stereotype about oneself is true.

False

7. White Europeans represent the majority of the U.S. population.

False

Statement

Answer

8. ___________ threat occurs when negative stereotypes about one's group are used to interpret one's behavior.

Stereotype

9. According to the American Psychological Association, all individuals are ___________ beings

Cultural

10. In the year ________, psychology professionals first paid attention to the culture within the psychology profession.

1973

11. By 1800, _________ could vote and hold office everywhere in the United States except Maryland and New Hampshire.

Jews

12. Cross-cultural psychologists test theories with the notion that culture was ____________ of the individual and separate from psychological activities and principles.

Independent

13. Culture evolved because it contributed to human ________ and reproduction.

Survival

14. Definitions and conceptualizations of culture in current psychology come primarily from the field of __________ anthropology.

Cultural

15. __________defines diversity in terms of shared national origin and current allegiance, therefore “ethnicity” is a more useful and definable concept.

Race

16. Genetic research has suggested that biological differences among races are largely ___________.

Superficial

17. Interracial marriage was illegal in some parts of the United States until the year ___________.

1969

18. Members of ethnic groups learn about themselves from others within the same group, and from the way they are treated by __________.

Mainstream Institutions and members of other groups

19. An individual’s ____________ identity includes his or her age, sexual orientation, physical disability, socioeconomic status, race and ethnicity, workplace role and position, religious and spiritual orientation, and work and family concerns.

Social

20. Ray (2010) stated that ________ ________ shapes "who we are in spite of ourselves, effortlessly, and inexorably as we … internalize our community's habits of thought, values, and forms of behavior" (p. 15).

Cultural Influence

21. The _________ approach to cultural research is most akin to indigenous psychology.

Emic

22. The _________ approach to cultural research is most akin to cross-cultural psychology.

Etic

23. The main factor in making decisions about racial categories is _________.

Politics

24. Contemporary approaches to culture emphasize the active role of individuals as _________ and _________ as they interact with others and with their environment.

Interpreters and Modifiers

25. Turtle Island is another name for _________ ________.

North America