Three of the following statements accurately describe ways in which various cultural groups are, on average, different from one another with respect to affect. Which statement is definitely incorrect?
a. Certain Asian cultures discourage children from feeling anger about events.
b. On average, children who have recently immigrated from faraway places worry quite a bit about how to behave in their new country.
c. Some groups try not to reveal their true feelings in their behaviors and facial expressions.
d. More so than other groups, people in China are prone to cognitive dissonancethey want everything in their lives to be logically consistent.
Question 2
Karin and her mother live on welfare in a poor, inner-city neighborhood in Detroit. Karin is quite bright and highly motivated, and she really wants to get a college education.
However, she knows that, on average, students from low-income homes perform more poorly on the SAT Reasoning Test than students from wealthier homes. When she takes the SAT, she is so nervous that she has trouble concentrating on the test items, and so her scores underestimate her true abilities. Which of the following concepts best explains what has happened to Karin?
a. Stereotype threat
b. An external attribution
c. Hot cognition
d. Cognitive dissonance
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