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Chapter 2: Describing Culture: What It Is and Where It Comes From
Multiple Choice
1. Hofstede suggests that culture consists of shared ______ that control individuals’ response to their
environment.
A. social stimuli
B. mental programs
C. knowledge
D. attitudes
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Describing Culture: What It Is and Where It Comes From
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Culture is all of the following EXCEPT:
A. shared
B. transmitted between generations
C. systematic
D. unorganized
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Features of Culture
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. In the case of culture, ______ means that most members intuitively understand the basic values,
norms, or logics that underlie what is acceptable.
A. shared
B. learned
C. organized
D. systematic
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture Is Shared
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Individuals carry three levels of programming in their minds about how they interact with their
environment. What do they carry at the broadest level?
A. Ideas about how culture is shared
B. All human beings share certain biological reactions
C. Personality characteristics that are unique to each of us as individuals
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D. Shared experiences within a particular society
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Culture Is Shared
Difficulty Level: Hard
5. Individuals carry three levels of programming in their minds about how they interact with their
environment. What do they carry at the intermediate level?
A. Ideas about how culture is shared
B. All human beings share certain biological reactions
C. Personality characteristics that are unique to each of us as individuals
D. Shared experiences within a particular society
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Culture Is Shared
Difficulty Level: Hard
6. Individuals carry three levels of programming in their minds about how they interact with their
environment. What do they carry at the narrowest level?
A. Ideas about how culture is shared
B. All human beings share certain biological reactions
C. Personality characteristics that are unique to each of us as individuals
D. Shared experiences within a particular society
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture Is Shared
Difficulty Level: Hard
7. ______ is (are) a collective phenomenon that is about elements of our mental programming that we
share with others in a society.
A. Beliefs
B. Attitudes
C. Culture
D. Values
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture Is Shared
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Culture is transmitted through the process of ______ and interacting with the social environment.
A. talking
B. learning
C. hearing
D. governing
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture Is Learned
Difficulty Level: Easy
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9. Learning through ______ implies that children can learn about their own culture and that it is possible
to learn about the cultural patterns of another society.
A. stories
B. technology
C. environment
D. government
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture Is Learned
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Culture is an organized system of values, attitudes, beliefs, and ______ related to each other, to a
cultural group’s physical environment, and to other cultural groups.
A. language
B. government
C. behavioral meanings
D. environment
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture Is Systematic and Organized
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. ______ is a set of knowledge structures consisting of systems of values, norms, attitudes, beliefs,
and behavioral meanings that are shared by members of a social group and embedded in its institutions
and that are learned from previous generations.
A. Society
B. Characteristics
C. Culture
D. Environment
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture: A Working Definition
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. ______ are consciously held explanations of the observable features of culture.
A. Characteristics
B. Values
C. Beliefs
D. Thoughts
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture: A Working Definition
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. ______ shared by the culture are basic ways of structuring reactions to the world and are taken for
granted by members of a cultural group.
A. Institutions
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Chapter 2: Describing Culture: What It Is and Where It Comes From
Multiple Choice
1. Hofstede suggests that culture consists of shared ______ that control individuals’ response to their
environment.
A. social stimuli
B. mental programs
C. knowledge
D. attitudes
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Describing Culture: What It Is and Where It Comes From
Difficulty Level: Easy
2. Culture is all of the following EXCEPT:
A. shared
B. transmitted between generations
C. systematic
D. unorganized
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Features of Culture
Difficulty Level: Medium
3. In the case of culture, ______ means that most members intuitively understand the basic values,
norms, or logics that underlie what is acceptable.
A. shared
B. learned
C. organized
D. systematic
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture Is Shared
Difficulty Level: Easy
4. Individuals carry three levels of programming in their minds about how they interact with their
environment. What do they carry at the broadest level?
A. Ideas about how culture is shared
B. All human beings share certain biological reactions
C. Personality characteristics that are unique to each of us as individuals
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D. Shared experiences within a particular society
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Culture Is Shared
Difficulty Level: Hard
5. Individuals carry three levels of programming in their minds about how they interact with their
environment. What do they carry at the intermediate level?
A. Ideas about how culture is shared
B. All human beings share certain biological reactions
C. Personality characteristics that are unique to each of us as individuals
D. Shared experiences within a particular society
Ans: D
Cognitive Domain: Analysis
Answer Location: Culture Is Shared
Difficulty Level: Hard
6. Individuals carry three levels of programming in their minds about how they interact with their
environment. What do they carry at the narrowest level?
A. Ideas about how culture is shared
B. All human beings share certain biological reactions
C. Personality characteristics that are unique to each of us as individuals
D. Shared experiences within a particular society
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture Is Shared
Difficulty Level: Hard
7. ______ is (are) a collective phenomenon that is about elements of our mental programming that we
share with others in a society.
A. Beliefs
B. Attitudes
C. Culture
D. Values
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture Is Shared
Difficulty Level: Easy
8. Culture is transmitted through the process of ______ and interacting with the social environment.
A. talking
B. learning
C. hearing
D. governing
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture Is Learned
Difficulty Level: Easy
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9. Learning through ______ implies that children can learn about their own culture and that it is possible
to learn about the cultural patterns of another society.
A. stories
B. technology
C. environment
D. government
Ans: A
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture Is Learned
Difficulty Level: Medium
10. Culture is an organized system of values, attitudes, beliefs, and ______ related to each other, to a
cultural group’s physical environment, and to other cultural groups.
A. language
B. government
C. behavioral meanings
D. environment
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture Is Systematic and Organized
Difficulty Level: Medium
11. ______ is a set of knowledge structures consisting of systems of values, norms, attitudes, beliefs,
and behavioral meanings that are shared by members of a social group and embedded in its institutions
and that are learned from previous generations.
A. Society
B. Characteristics
C. Culture
D. Environment
Ans: C
Cognitive Domain: Knowledge
Answer Location: Culture: A Working Definition
Difficulty Level: Easy
12. ______ are consciously held explanations of the observable features of culture.
A. Characteristics
B. Values
C. Beliefs
D. Thoughts
Ans: B
Cognitive Domain: Comprehension
Answer Location: Culture: A Working Definition
Difficulty Level: Medium
13. ______ shared by the culture are basic ways of structuring reactions to the world and are taken for
granted by members of a cultural group.
A. Institutions
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