Which of the following is a problem limiting the applicability of cross-cultural personality research?
a. Much less research has been conducted on personality in English-speaking countries than in Latin America. c.
The majority of the research on personality has been done on children and the aged in Latin America. b.
Much of the personality research that has been done in other languages have not been made widely available in English-language sources.
d. The majority of the research on personality conducted in the English-speaking countries has not been well-documented until very recently.
Question 2Which of the following is true of self-enhancement?
a. It is prevalent among Nordic cultures.
c. It is defined as the tendency to make one conspicuous.
b. It is defined as the process of administering rewards or punishments to oneself.
d. It is genetically induced and determined at birth.
Question 3A study on child-rearing practices in different cultures and their effects on personality concluded that:
a. restrictive parental practices adversely affected the mental health and emotional well-being of Arab teenagers.
b. the effect child-rearing practices have on the development of personality is neutralized by the time an individual reaches adolescence.
c. parents in individualistic cultures tended to be noncoercive, democratic, and permissive.
d. Chinese mothers living in Canada were found to be less authoritarian in raising their children than non-Chinese mothers in Canada.
Question 4Identify a cultural difference between individualism and collectivism.
a. The levels of anxiety and depression have been found to be higher in collectivistic cultures than in the individualistic ones.
b. Individualism has traditionally been encouraged in Asian cultures.
c. Collectivism has traditionally been encouraged in Western cultures.
d. The levels of anxiety and depression have been found to be lower in collectivistic cultures than in individualistic ones.
Question 5A person from a collectivist society is more likely to focus on:
a. group values.
c. competitiveness.
b. assertiveness.
d. self-enhancement.
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