1. In our reading by Rentfrow, Gosling and Potter (2008), immigrants’ selection of regions that satisfied their physical and psychological needs, was stated to be a possible cause of average differences in personality traits by geographic region.

A. true

B. false

2. In our reading by Rentfrow, Gosling and Potter (2008), early migration trends into/out of a region could cause average differences in personality traits due to the following effects, which do not rely at all on genetic founder effects:

A. historical founder effects

B. social founder effects

3. In our reading by Rentfrow, Gosling and Potter (2008), the following mechanism(s) was/were stated to likely be key to permitting average, geographical differences in personality traits to endure:

A. enviornmental influence

B. selective migration

C. all of the answers given here are correct

D. social influence

4. In our reading by Rentfrow, Gosling and Potter (2008), there is no reason to believe the physical environment might affect personality traits.

A. True

B. False

5. In our lecture regarding our reading by Rentfrow, Gosling and Potter (2008), the following was/were given as reasons to pay attention to the demographic characteristics of a study sample:

A. it may represent spurious reasoning as to sample constitution

B. it may too small (i.e., too few people providing data)

C. it may not be representative of the population sampled

6. According to Rentfrow, Gosling and Potter (2008), studies in social and personality psychology have concluded that behavior is a function of: 

A. clusters of non-random distribution of modal personality dimensions, across states

B. both persons and situations

C. persons

D. situations

7. In the reading by Rentfrow, Gosling and Potter (2008), they noted that geographic variation in psychological characteristics emerge and persist within regions

A. False

B. True

8. What was/were the primary approaches in the study of personality across cultures, reviewed and integrated by Church (2010) in our module reading?

A. cross-cultural psychological

B. all of answers given here are correct

C. indigenous psychological

D. cultural psychological

E. evolutionary psychological

9. An advantage of the cross-cultural psychological approach to the study of personality across cultures according to our reading by Church (2010), is

A. it is less likely to miss important, culture-specific details of a measured quantity

B. it focuses on areas of study (e.g., interpersonal conflict and cooperation) of great importance to many

C. it is particularly able to use contextual descriptions of culture

D. it is useful to be able to compare multiple cultures, in a globalized world

10. A disadvantage of the cultural psychological approach to the study of personality across cultures according to our reading by Church (2010), relative to other listed approaches, is that

A. its measures used may lack in universality

B. it is of questionable utility of comparing average values on standardized measures across cultures

C. it fails to simultaneously provide comparisons of high numbers of cultures