CULTURAL PSYCHOLOGY 4TH EDITION
TEST SCRIPT 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+
◉ You are the boss of a company in the United States and you have
instituted a new policy requiring all interactions between workers, who
are predominantly white Americans, to take a culture-blind approach.
This means that
a)ethnic minority workers will be more engaged with their work than
they were before the new policy was instituted
b)white American workers will act in less prejudicial ways toward ethnic
minority workers
c)you want the workers to treat each other as individuals, with
individual experiences and individual histories
d) you belong to the Russian culture-historical school
e)you want your workers to focus on aspects of psychology that are
nonuniversals . Answer: you want the workers to treat each other as
individuals, with individual experiences and individual histories
◉ Which of the following is an example of ethnocentrism?
a)"I grew up eating fish raw, but people from Culture X like to eat fish
cooked. Different countries just have different food preferences."
b)"Some cultures are better than others, that is a fact."
, c)"We should be more tolerant of different ethnicities, and make that
the key goal of the company."
d)"Those people from Culture X are weird. Rather than using forks to
eat like we do, like people are supposed to, they like to pick things up
using sticks to eat."
e)"I do not understand. How come we keep dogs as pets, but people
from Culture X keep llamas as pets?" . Answer: "Those people from
Culture X are weird. Rather than using forks to eat like we do, like
people are supposed to, they like to pick things up using sticks to eat."
◉ The Russian cultural-historical school emphasized that
a)the psychological effects of cultural learning are best evident by
contrasting people from different historical periods
b)people interact with their environments via culturally acquired tools
c)mind and culture are mutually constituted
d)the mind has a universal layer and a culturally specific layer
e)a culture is the sum of its members' individual personalities . Answer:
people interact with their environments via culturally acquired tools
◉ A orangutan learns from his human zookeeper to wash carrots in the
artificial river in his zoo habitat before eating them. Based on the
definitions of culture used in the textbook, can this example be said to
be culture?
TEST SCRIPT 2026 COMPLETE
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
GRADED A+
◉ You are the boss of a company in the United States and you have
instituted a new policy requiring all interactions between workers, who
are predominantly white Americans, to take a culture-blind approach.
This means that
a)ethnic minority workers will be more engaged with their work than
they were before the new policy was instituted
b)white American workers will act in less prejudicial ways toward ethnic
minority workers
c)you want the workers to treat each other as individuals, with
individual experiences and individual histories
d) you belong to the Russian culture-historical school
e)you want your workers to focus on aspects of psychology that are
nonuniversals . Answer: you want the workers to treat each other as
individuals, with individual experiences and individual histories
◉ Which of the following is an example of ethnocentrism?
a)"I grew up eating fish raw, but people from Culture X like to eat fish
cooked. Different countries just have different food preferences."
b)"Some cultures are better than others, that is a fact."
, c)"We should be more tolerant of different ethnicities, and make that
the key goal of the company."
d)"Those people from Culture X are weird. Rather than using forks to
eat like we do, like people are supposed to, they like to pick things up
using sticks to eat."
e)"I do not understand. How come we keep dogs as pets, but people
from Culture X keep llamas as pets?" . Answer: "Those people from
Culture X are weird. Rather than using forks to eat like we do, like
people are supposed to, they like to pick things up using sticks to eat."
◉ The Russian cultural-historical school emphasized that
a)the psychological effects of cultural learning are best evident by
contrasting people from different historical periods
b)people interact with their environments via culturally acquired tools
c)mind and culture are mutually constituted
d)the mind has a universal layer and a culturally specific layer
e)a culture is the sum of its members' individual personalities . Answer:
people interact with their environments via culturally acquired tools
◉ A orangutan learns from his human zookeeper to wash carrots in the
artificial river in his zoo habitat before eating them. Based on the
definitions of culture used in the textbook, can this example be said to
be culture?
