Exam 13: Cultural Variation in Experience, Behavior, and Personality

________ occurs when a child picks up the cultural influences of the place where he or she grows up.

The tendency to see members of your own group as very different from one another but the members of groups to which you do not belong as very similar to each other is called the ________.

Studies of cross-cultural gender differences in the Big Five tend to find that ________.

Match the description with its associated cultural characteristic. -Dignity

According to one study,city residents who scored higher on strengths of the head tended to vote for the ________ presidential nominee.

One argument for the universal human condition is that differences between cultural rules for appropriate behavior may mask ________.

Some cross-cultural researchers compare average levels of traits across cultures.For example,Chueng and Song (1989)found that Chinese participants generally described themselves as higher on ________ when compared to an American sample.

Countries with low average levels of self-esteem also tend to have high rates of ________.

According to the text,what term describes cultures that have only a few socially sanctioned goals and only a few ways to achieve these goals?

Extraversion,openness,and sociosexuality might be lower in countries near the equator because low levels of these traits ________.

According to Triandis,________ societies assume that individuals are importantly different from each other.

One of the two aspects of the measure of bicultural identity integration (BII)is the degree to which bicultural individuals ________.

According to Henrich et al.,80 percent of participants come from countries that are ________.

Match the description with its associated cultural characteristic. -Need for Achievement

Cross-cultural psychology has examined differences in the way that members of various cultures think.Some research suggests that people from collectivist cultures think more ________ than those from individualistic cultures.

What conclusion emerges from item response theory (IRT)analyses that are used to evaluate the validity of cross-cultural comparisons of common personality measures?

Concepts like amae and yuan might be ________,whereas concepts like duty and obligations to the group might be ________.

According to the textbook,what behavior led to a Danish mother's arrest in New York?

Studies of endogenous personality descriptors in China and Spain seem to suggest that there are ________ factors in each lexicon.

If less than 2 percent of a country's population exhibits left-handedness,then cross-cultural researchers might say that this is likely a(n)________ culture.