PSY101 Exam Flashcards

(10 cards)

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The universal psychological toolkit

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is a set of basic skills and aptitudes that can be used to meet human needs

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In the context of culture and race, which of the following statements is true?

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Many psychologists believe race is a social construction

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One of the most important thinking abilities that humans have unlike other animals is the ability to

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Believe that other people are intentional agents

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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

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Individualism vs Collectivism

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Which of the following statements is true regarding cultural worldviews

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Cultural worldviews contain attitudes, beliefs, opinions and values about the world

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Studies that examine cultural differences in mean levels of variables are called

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level-oriented studies

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Which studies use countries or cultures as the unit of analysis?

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Ecological-level studies

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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 _____

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measurement bias

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In the context of procedures used to establish linguistic equivalence, which of the following is an accurate description of back translation?

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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

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