The Blurgs, an Alien Family from Neptune, Want to Build

question 38

Multiple Choice

The Blurgs, an alien family from Neptune, want to build a new house.This family consists of a father, a mother, a 20-year-old son, a 10-year-old son, and a baby daughter.When deciding on sleeping arrangements, the people of Neptune greatly value respect for hierarchy, as defined by Shweder and colleagues in their study examining cultural differences in sleeping arrangements between Americans and Indians.Which of the following most accurately reflects this value?

• A) The parents sleep in their own room while the children all sleep in the same room.
• B) The oldest person in the family gets a room to him- or herself.
• C) The younger brother decides to sleep in the same room as the older brother.
• D) Everyone sleeps in his or her own room.
• E) The older brother sleeps in his own room.

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