PSY101 Exam Flashcards
(10 cards)
The universal psychological toolkit
is a set of basic skills and aptitudes that can be used to meet human needs
In the context of culture and race, which of the following statements is true?
Many psychologists believe race is a social construction
One of the most important thinking abilities that humans have unlike other animals is the ability to
Believe that other people are intentional agents
Hofstede’s dimension of ___ has been most commonly used to both predict and explain many differences across cultures, especially in many aspects of thinking and emotions
Individualism vs Collectivism
Which of the following statements is true regarding cultural worldviews
Cultural worldviews contain attitudes, beliefs, opinions and values about the world
Studies that examine cultural differences in mean levels of variables are called
level-oriented studies
Which studies use countries or cultures as the unit of analysis?
Ecological-level studies
The degree to which measures used to collect data across cultures are equivalent - that is, whether they have the same validity and reliability in all the cultures being compared to is called _____
measurement bias
In the context of procedures used to establish linguistic equivalence, which of the following is an accurate description of back translation?
It involves taking a research protocol in one language, translating it into the target language and having someone else translate it back to the original