(CO611) Chapter 5 - Quiz Flashcards
Chapter 5: Understanding Culture and Cultural Differences
Which of the following statements about culture is FALSE?
a. It is transmitted from one generation to the next.
b. It comprises traditional ideas and related values.
c. It is static and rarely changing.
d. It is largely preconscious and obvious only when it has been disturbed.
c. It is static and rarely changing.
Which of the following terms is defined as a set of shared assumptions and beliefs about how the world works?
a. paradigm
b. epistemology
c. locus of control
d. ontology
a. paradigm
Why do social scientists increasingly choose to distinguish between human groups on the basis of culture rather than race?
a. The social reality of race in the U.S. proves the existence of five distinct groups, which is too great a number for research purposes.
b. Defining race biologically creates opportunity for pseudoscientific arguments about the inferiority of people of color.
c. Recent presidential elections have proven that the majority in the U.S. have moved past racial myths and controversy.
d. The notion of the “great melting pot” has historically provided upward mobility opportunities for people of color, but less so for culturally distinct groups.
b. Defining race biologically creates opportunity for pseudoscientific arguments about the inferiority of people of color.
Which of the Brown and Landrum-Brown’s worldview dimensions views cultures as preferring activities of doing, of being, or of becoming?
a. axiology
b. ethos
c. concept of self
d. psychobehavioral modality
d. psychobehavioral modality
According to Ho, Rasheed, and Rasheed, which of the following cultural groups tends to be directed to the present with minimal concern about the past or the future?
a. European Americans
b. Native Americans
c. Latin Americans
d. Asian Americans
b. Native Americans
According to Ho, Rasheed, and Rasheed, which of the following cultural groups tends to see human nature as both good and bad and as possessing the potential for both?
a. African Americans
b. Native Americans
c. Asian Americans
d. Latin Americans
a. African Americans
Which of the following terms means viewing a culture through “glasses” that are external to it?
a. ontological
b. epistemological
c. emic
d. etic
d. etic
Helping clients cope with a difficult life situation by accommodating or adapting to it is ________, while encouraging or teaching clients to impose changes on the external environment so that it better fits their needs is ________.
a. alloplastic; autoplastic
b. emic; etic
c. autoplastic; alloplastic
d. etic; emic
c. autoplastic; alloplastic
When working with clients of color, four areas tend to be problematic. Which is NOT one of them?
a. the importance of verbal expressiveness and self-disclosure
b. the setting of short-term goals
c. the importance placed on changing the client versus changing the environment
d. the definition of what is mentally healthy
b. the setting of short-term goals
As a general rule, Northern European American helpers believe clients have an ________ locus of control and an ________ locus of responsibility.
a. internal; internal
b. internal; external
c. external; internal
d. external; external
a. internal; internal
Which of the following terms is used to describe ego development typical of ethnic group members who conceive of themselves not as individuals, but as part of a broader collective?
a. individual self
b. extended self
c. felt experience of living
d. psychobehavioral modality
b. extended self
Which of the following cultures places the most importance on individual autonomy and self-assertion regarding issues of mental health?
a. Northern European Americans
b. African Americans
c. Asian Americans
d. Native Americans
a. Northern European Americans
Sue and Zane suggest one strategy for improving provider credibility is to ensure the client receives some ________ as a result of the helping process.
a. monetary compensation
b. continuing educational credit
c. immediate benefit
d. kind of restitution
c. immediate benefit
Duran and Duran contend that inherent in the Northern European worldview is an inability to ________ the existence of alternative ways of knowing and experiencing the world.
a. counteract
b. tolerate
c. assess
d. discuss
b. tolerate
Some researchers in cross-cultural service delivery suggest alternative models that go beyond mere adaptation and adjustment of the Northern European paradigm, such as a return to ________ of the client’s culture.
a. the homeland
b. familial obligations
c. traditional healing practices
d. the original language
c. traditional healing practices
