Intro to Cross Cultural

The universal psychological toolkit has the following contents:

• Work, Family, Religion

• Cognitive abilities, emotions, personality traits

• Culture, memory, personality

• School, work, animals

Popular culture, trends in music, art, and other expressions that is popular among people is stable over time and considered as “culture”.

• True

• False

The ________________________ approach to cross cultural psychology can lead to discrimination.

Factors that influence the creation of culture include the environment, group life, resources, and the evolved human mind. Resources can include:

• Money

• Food

• Water

• All of the above

Psychological research has been based on WEIRDO’S which stands for:

Traditional values are characteristic of ___________world countries and secular values for _____________world countries

• Eastern, Western

• Western, Eastern

Culture specific processes are called: _______________.

The unique information system shared by a group, and transmitted across generations which allows the group to meet basic needs, pursue well-being, and derive meaning from life is called

Complexity, differentiation, and institutionalization are characteristics of human life that differentiates it from those of animals

• True

• False

Race refers to a person's physical characteristics, such as bone structure and skin, hair, or eye color. Ethnicity, however, refers to cultural factors, including nationality, regional culture, ancestry, and language. Sarah is a Japanese born American citizen who is Muslim.

What is Sarah’s ethnicity?

• Arab

• Hispanic

• Asian

• White