Exam 14: Cross-Cultural Psychology

A person who comes to Australia through one of the international human rights programmes is someone who has become stateless and may be in danger of persecution or death because of political events in another country. Such a person is referred to as ________.

Stephen Bochner argues that exposure to a second culture is essentially a learning experience: acquiring the skills of the new culture, rather than dwelling on the loss of familiar patterns from a previous culture. Which of the following statements is true of culture learning?

A medical specialist from Perth, Western Australia, has been appointed to improve the effectiveness of diabetes education among Aboriginal communities around Lake Argyll in the Kimberley. The first thing that person does is to find out from local leaders acceptable ways of communicating with the community and how to gain cooperation with the work. Which part of Vicary and Bishop's 10-step model does this best represent?

In the study of personality, Cheung and her colleagues have identified "the Chinese tradition factor". It is

Many writers about Aboriginal Australians do not compare them with Torres Straits people, because there have been no ________ studies of the differences between Aboriginal and Torres Straits peoples.

In contrast to the theory of acculturation posed by Berry and colleagues, what do Oetting and Beauvais focus solely on in shaping the acculturation experience?

Wierzbicka states that there is considerable diversity in the way in which different cultures and societies think about feelings, but she is certain that there are common, even universal emotions. When she says that the problem is "how to sort out the culture-specific from the universal", which principle of scientific thinking would you invoke in order to evaluate current or future research on universals?

The orientation that assumes basic psychological processes to be common across human species is ________.

Oberg's concept of culture shock is based on a number of symptoms. Which of these is not one of these symptoms?

The University of the Pilbara has begun admitting international students, mainly from Arab counties, because of the mining industry links between Western Australia and the Middle East. They have designed an orientation programme to help these sojourning students understand cultural influences on teaching and learning that might differ from their previous educational experiences. Which of the Hofstede dimensions is likely to produce the greatest difference?

Outline the main features of the ABC model of culture shock. How does this model incorporate the features of earlier models of acculturation?

________ means studying a culture's behaviour from the point of view of an insider.

Dr Woreddy believes that culture does not influence thoughts or behaviours, and as such does not see a need to employ culturally fair tests. Dr Woreddy's approach is most consistent with which orientation?

Which of the following is not one of the four principles embodied in Australia's official multicultural policy?

Large numbers of Malaysians come to Australia each year to pursue English language courses, technical and vocational training or higher education. Compared to Australians, Malaysians are extremely high in uncertainty avoidance. Which of the following characteristics will they be more likely to display to their teachers and counsellors than would Australian-born students?

In high power distance cultures, parents put high value on their children's ________.

The Big Five personality factors appear to be widely recognisable in more than 50 countries. However, there are considerable variations, especially in some developing countries. Which of the following was not mentioned in Chapter 3 as a factor in causing these variations?

Cultural distance is a measure of the dissimilarity of habits, customs, language and values between people of different cultures. During which of the following periods of Australian history has cultural distance between groups been greatest?

There appear to be links between prejudice and health. Which of the following statements about prejudice in Australia is false?

Maria Lee came to Australia from Vietnam more than 20 years ago. She cares for her elderly father, her husband and two teenage children. Which of the following actions is she likely to take in relation to her family's health and well-being?