18 Questions
What is culture a product of?
Evolution of the human mind and complex cognitive abilities
How do cultures help select behaviors, attitudes, values, and opinions?
By focusing on a few limited alternatives to maximize effectiveness
What role do groups play in creating cultures?
Meeting individuals' needs through cultural practices
What problem does culture aim to address?
Individuals' adaptations to their contexts
In what way do cultures help optimize resource tapping to meet survival needs?
By selecting specific behaviors, attitudes, values, and opinions
What are the two major categories that the contents of culture can be divided into?
Objective and subjective elements
Which of the following is an example of an objective element of culture?
Eating utensils
What role do universal social problems play in the creation of culture according to the text?
They interact with biological needs to shape cultural solutions
What did a recent study analyzing millions of digitized books reveal about cultural trends over time?
Changes in vocabularies
In the context of culture, what do architecture, art, mass media, and the Internet represent?
Objective elements
How are Facebook and Twitter classified based on the information provided?
Important artifacts of culture
Based on the text, what distinguishes the objective elements of culture from the subjective elements?
Objective elements are physical while subjective elements are abstract
Which of the following is NOT true about culture?
Culture can be directly observed.
What is the role of culture in social coordination?
Culture provides guidelines for efficient task accomplishment.
How does culture contribute to avoiding social chaos in groups?
By promoting social order and coordination.
What is the primary purpose of passing cultural guidelines to future generations?
To ensure future generations have ready-to-use guidelines.
How do cultural products evolve over generations, according to the text?
They always improve and are ratcheted up.
What is the relationship between culture and meeting basic human needs?
Culture takes advantage of universal psychological toolkits to meet basic human needs.
Test your knowledge on the cross-cultural literature in psychology and the contents of culture as described in this book. Explore the objective elements and meaning systems that shape different ways of living.
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