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Questions
1. After English, the language most people speak in the United States at home is:
a. Arabic.
b. French.
c. Tagalog.
d. Spanish.
2. A store begins selling a T-shirt for young girls that reads, "I'm too pretty to do math." The store eventually stopped selling the shirt because of complaints from customers. Which reason BEST explains why the message of this T-shirt would be considered a microaggression?
a. The message reinforces a sexist stereotype.
b. The T-shirt can potentially cause adults to assume a girl is not smart.
c. The T-shirt is sold only to girls.
d. The message indirectly suggests that boys are less important than girls.
3. The ability to live and get along with people of different cultures is called:
a. dynamic sizing.
b. acculturation.
c. cultural intelligence.
d. integration.
4. Hamish is a native of Scotland who is a student at a university in Germany. Hamish strongly identifies with Scottish culture and he identifies very little with German culture. The German culture has had little influence on Hamish's clothing, food, and friend choices. Hamish's lifestyle in Germany is very similar to his lifestyle in Scotland because Hamish interacts little with German people outside of the university. Hamish's acculturation strategy is BEST described as:
a. integration.
b. marginalization.
c. separation.
d. assimilation.
5. About _____ of people in the United States live in the country's 39 largest cities.
a. 30%
b. 20%
c. 50%
d. 40%
6. Which is NOT an example of microaggression?
a. posting a person's naked pictures online without permission to embarrass that person
b. whistling and catcalling women
c. saying "that's so gay" to indicate something is bad or negative
d. saying "you sound White" to an African American person
7. Research suggests that all of these problems occur in sexual minorities at two to three times the rate in the general population EXCEPT:
a. depression.
b. poor physical health.
c. anxiety.
d. alcohol problems.
8. Intersectionality is BEST defined as:
a. the way any one person's unique combination of social and cultural categories overlap.
b. a set of shared beliefs, values, and patterns of behavior within a group of people.
c. a comprehensive culturally influenced way of approaching and understanding the world.
d. knowing the norm for a group yet realizing it may not apply to all members of the group.
9. Dr. Stanley worked with an organization that wanted to develop a course in multiculturalism for their employees. In one part of the course, Dr. Stanley specifically addressed the importance of knowing information about different cultural groups as well as correctly applying that information. What concept is Dr. Stanley specifically focusing on?
a. dynamic sizing
b. uncertainty avoidance
c. microaggressions
d. cultural intelligence
10. A psychologist is interested in researching cultural differences. The psychologist specifically wants to examine the belief that differences in one culture from another are shortcomings due to social and environmental factors. The psychologist is focusing on which model of multiculturalism?
a. cultural pluralism
b. culturally disadvantaged
c. deficit
d. positive psychology