Which of Following Is True of the Problems Regarding the Cross-Cultural

question 11

Multiple Choice

Which of following is true of the problems regarding the cross-cultural application of personality assessment techniques?

• A) Responding to questions in a true-false format or multiple-choice format,which is natural to American college students,may be an awkward or alien way of answering in other cultures.
• B) The TAT cannot be used effectively in Nordic cultures because of the Nordic prohibitions against representing humans in pictorial form.
• C) Due to the ongoing ethnic tensions in the Arab world,there has been a steady decline in the number of personality tests,developed in America,being successfully translated into Arabic.
• D) People of European origin may reflect mistrust or interpersonal wariness due to pervasive discrimination and perceived racism.

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Definitions:

Real-Life Settings

Environments or situations that occur in the natural, everyday world, outside of controlled or artificial experimental conditions.

Questionnaires

A method of research involving a series of written or oral questions to gather information from respondents.

Human Nature

The inherent characteristics, including ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving, that all humans are presumed to share.

Spontaneity

The quality of being spontaneous, unplanned or arising naturally and without premeditation.