Short-answer
- What is culture?
- “Are we ready for the entire field to move to the formal,
experimental stage when we have yet to determine whether the 800
million Hindus in India or 125 million Japanese have the same sense
of self that we do, the same social motives, or the same
attributional biases that have found to be typical of American
college students?” asks Rozin ( 2001, p.13). Comment on this
statement as a way of demonstrating your understanding of cultural
aspects of social psychology.
- What are the barriers to becoming interculturally competent?
- What are the intercultural competencies which the EXCELL
program tries to enhance?
- What are the three underlying learning theories for the EXCELL
program?
Multiple choice
The study of culture from an emic perspective focuses on
________________ in contrast to an etic perspective which focuses on
_________________
a. culture-specific psychological constructs, culture-universal
psychological constructs
b. culture-universal psychological constructs, culture-specific
psychological constructs
c. cultural variation, culture homogeneity
d. cultural homogeneity, cultural variation
Indigenous psychology claims that _______________________
a. psychology is native and created for its people
b. Psychology is specific to particular continents
c. A psychology of Black people is distinguishable from a psychology
of White people
d. Psychology is a cultural artefact
Cross-cultural research has demonstrated that:
a. those from individualistic cultures have an more independent
self-concept
b. those from collectivistic cultures have a more interdependent
self-concept
c. those from individualistic cultures have an more interdependent
self-concept
d. those from collectivistic cultures have an more independent
self-concept
e. both a and b
Which of the following statements are true?
1 = 1 in 5 people in Australia are born overseas
2 = 40% of people themselves, or their parents, were born overseas
3 = Contact alone will be sufficient for positive intergroup
relations
a. 1 only
b. 2 and 3
c. none
d. all
Which of the following statements are true?
1 = In Australia during 2004, there were over 100, 000 students in
Australian universities from overseas
2 = In Australia during 2004, there were over 200, 000 students in
Australian universities from overseas
3 = The top countries sending overseas students are from
UK/Europe/North America
4 = The top countries sending overseas students are from Asia
a. 1 and 3
b. 2 and 3
c. 1 and 4
d. 2 and 4
Surveys of Australian university students have shown
that:
1 = Australian students perceive advantages to interacting with
overseas students
2 = Australian students perceive disadvantages to interacting with
overseas students
3 = Australian students did not exhibit racism towards overseas
students
4 = Australian students exhibit racism towards overseas students
a. 1 and 3
b. 2 and 3
c. 1 and 4
d. 2 and 4
Neil and Mak (2005) found that Asian-born international
students more likely to report depressed symptoms if they:
1 = Were from non-English speaking backgrounds
2 = Experienced stress from intercultural contact
3 = Had a lower level of intercultural social efficacy
4 = Had a lower level of general social support
a. 1 and 3
b. 2 and 3
c. 1, 2 and 3
d. 2, 3 and 4
Which of the following statements is consistent with
the Eastern view of the person?
a. is bounded, stable, and autonomous
b. is achievement oriented
c. formulates personal goals
d. is responsible with others for joint behaviour
e. defines life by successful goal achievement
Which of the following statements correctly characterises the
contrast between North American and European Social Psychology?
a. Europeans have focused on laboratory and experimental approaches
to study whereas North Americans have focused on conflict and the
connection to sociology and anthropology
b. Europeans have concentrated on the ideological influences on
social behaviour whereas their American counterparts have focused on
the study of social life considered as aggregations
c. Europeans have focused on conflict, the connection with sociology
and the impact of ideology whereas their counterparts in the US have
emphasized laboratory/experimental approaches to the study of
individuals in groups
d. Europeans have concentrated on the ideological influences on
social behaviour whereas their American counterparts have focused on
the study of conflict and its conditions
e. Europeans have concentrated on the ideological influences on
social behaviour whereas their American counterparts have focused on
the study of psychology’s relation to sociology
Orientalism is a term used by Edward Said (1978) to refer to
a. the study of the Middle East
b. the study of the Oriental person
c. discourse and representational practices on the Middle East
d. the politics of the Middle East
e. none of the above