The Spread of Beliefs and Practices from One Cultural Group

question 18

Multiple Choice

The spread of beliefs and practices from one cultural group to another is called

• A) cultural diffusion.
• B) cultural leveling.
• C) cultural lag.
• D) culture shock.

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Definitions:

Maintenance Effect

The ongoing benefits of a treatment or intervention after the primary treatment period has concluded.

Encoding Specificity Effect

The principle that retrieval of information is improved when conditions at recall match those at encoding.

Primacy Effect

The tendency to remember information presented at the beginning of a list or sequence better than information that comes later.

Recency Effect

A memory bias where the most recently presented information is remembered better than older information.