Question: Principles of conduct that help govern the behavior of individuals and groups are known as ______.
Answer Choices:
logos
ethics
pathos
beliefs
Answer: ethics
Question: In the next 20 years, the racial and ethnic diversity of the U.S. population will be distributed more evenly across the nation.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: Generally speaking, all immigrants can assimilate in the American “melting pot.”
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: The tendency to think that one’s own culture is superior to other cultures is called ______.
Answer Choices:
ethnocentrism
nativism
heterogeneity
universality
Answer: ethnocentrism
Question: Principles of conduct that help govern the behavior of individuals and groups are known as ______.
Answer Choices:
logos
ethics
pathos
beliefs
Answer: ethics
Question: In the next 20 years, the racial and ethnic diversity of the U.S. population will be distributed more evenly across the nation.
Answer Choices:
True
False
Answer: False
Question: A research method where writers examine their own life experiences to discover broader cultural insights is known as ______.
Answer Choices:
frame analysis
phenomenography
autoethnography
hermeneutics
Answer: autoethnography
Question: White Americans think that there is greater equality between races than do African Americans. This difference between the two cultures illustrates that ______.
Answer Choices:
culture is a group-related perception
culture is expressed as behavior
culture is dynamic
culture involves power
Answer: culture is a group-related perception
Question: In the context of the role of perception in cultural patterns, in contrast to Asians, North European cultural groups ______.
Answer Choices:
lay heavy emphasis on sensory information and feeling.
use more description and physical metaphors to capture their perceptions.
tend to be more abstract, stressing coherent explanation.
emphasize action-oriented procedures.
Answer: tend to be more abstract, stressing coherent explanation
Question: Societies that are more likely to punish criminals than rehabilitate them probably see human nature as ______.
Answer Choices:
unpredictable and dynamic
basically good
a combination of good and evil
essentially evil
Answer: essentially evil
Question: Societies that are more likely to punish criminals than rehabilitate them probably see human nature as ______.
Answer Choices:
unpredictable and dynamic
basically good
a combination of good and evil
essentially evil
Answer: essentially evil
Question: In the context of the role of perception in cultural patterns, in contrast to Asians, North European cultural groups ______.
Answer Choices:
lay heavy emphasis on sensory information and feeling.
use more description and physical metaphors to capture their perceptions.
tend to be more abstract, stressing coherent explanation.
emphasize action-oriented procedures.
Answer: tend to be more abstract, stressing coherent explanation
Question: Jeremy is always polite and courteous to his instructors at school but tends to be a bit rowdy with his friends at a party. This difference in Jeremy’s communication illustrates the importance of ______ in determining behavior and communication.
Answer Choices:
power distance
context
rituals
ethnocentrism
Answer: context
Question: The tendency to think that one’s own culture is superior to other cultures is called ______.
Answer Choices:
ethnocentrism
nativism
heterogeneity
universality
Answer: ethnocentrism