PSY101 Exam

Question 1

The universal psychological toolkit

Answer 1

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

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Many psychologists believe race is a social construction

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Believe that other people are intentional agents

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Individualism vs Collectivism

Question 5

Which of the following statements is true regarding cultural worldviews

Answer 5

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

Question 6

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

Answer 6

level-oriented studies

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Ecological-level studies

Question 8

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 _____

Answer 8

measurement bias

Question 9

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

Answer 9

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