Practice Quiz Chapter 05

. It is difficult to develop a cross-cultural intelligence test because ________.

. Jean Lave's research on "school" math versus "grocery store" math revealed the following information on cognitive styles in North America: ________.

. In their study of syllogistic reasoning with Kpelle subjects in Liberia, Cole and Scribner found that the Kpelle ________.

. Thinking of individuals as subjects who occupy various positions within society is advantageous because it highlights that ________.

. Sexuality refers to ________.

. In the depth perception test, the South African subjects did not interpret the line drawings in three dimensions. This is due to differences in ________ between the South African subjects and the Western researchers.

. The zone of proximal development illustrates the ________.

. As a member of a culture, an individual has been provided with a range of cognitive styles. A person using an articulate style—able to pay attention to something apart from its context—is said to be ________.

. The act of becoming aware of the world through what we have termed the five traditional senses is called ________.

. The culturally patterned ways that individuals from different cultures learn to interpret what they see and construct mental pictures is known as ________.

. The process described as "a nexus of relations between the mind at work and the world in which it works" is known as ________.

. The mental tasks that are common to all unimpaired human beings independent of culture are called ________.

. The simple term for "going beyond the information given" is ________.

. Cross-cultural study of emotion is difficult because ________.

. The process whereby human beings learn to become members of a social group is called ________.

. ________ is the process by which humans living with one another learn to come to terms with the ways of thinking and feeling that are culturally appropriate.

. The identity that is the end result of the processes of socialization and enculturation for an individual is ________.

. Specific culturally defined principles of behaviour are known as one's ________.

. Sets of behaviours that are commonly perceived as masculine or feminine within a specific culture are known as ________.

. ________ is primarily a construct of cultural beliefs and behaviours.

. When it comes to a cross-cultural understanding of diverse human sexuality, it is clear that biology as well as ________ plays the biggest role in creating the diversity.

. Emotions surrounding universal experiences such as birth and death are experienced in the same way across nearly all cultures.

. Western culture views human nature as a mind-body dualism.

. Most anthropologists agree that the source of motivation is instinct.

. The stages of cognitive development differ both within cultures and between cultures.

. Developmental systems theory focuses on the biological forces that shape our lives, including genetics and evolutionary selection.

. Functional cognitive systems are culturally linked sets of cognitive processes that guide perception, conception, reason, and emotion.

. Emotion begins as a cognitive acknowledgement of a stimulus, which in turn prompts bodily arousal.

. Procreation is the main determinant of sexual expression and forms of sexual practice.

. When exploring the social dimensions of consciousness, Lev Vygotsky primarily focused on face-to-face interactions while Margaret Mead was more interested in the wider social, cultural, and historical context in which face-to-face interaction is embedded.

. Human perception is not affected by cultural differences, but it is universal.

. Cultural schemas will be easily understood by members of the same culture.

. Folk taxonomies are the means by which people use culturally relevant categories to group things together.

. IQ testing works independent culture.

. Thinking has been said to be the cognitive process of "going beyond the information".

. All humans come equipped with the same elementary cognitive processes.

. Socialization and enculturation are two words that mean essentially the same thing.

. Motivation is a cultural invention of Western society.

. A person's agency is their ability to make choices and effect change through his or her actions.

. A person’s projection of self is expected to be consistent with the norms and values of their culture.

. Human groups that display two opposite sexes with two clearly defined genders can be clearly defined as "sexually normal" compared to those that do not.

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