PSW Chaper 10 - Caring About Culture
and Diversity Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
Ageism -
correct answer ✅Feelings of impatience, intolerance, or prejudice
towards others based on negative attitudes and stereotypes toward
a person or a group of people because of their age.
Why does Ageism have two concepts? -
correct answer ✅Ageism refers to two concepts: a socially
constructed way of thinking about older persons based on negative
attitudes and stereotypes about aging and a tendency to structure
society based on an assumption that everyone is young, thereby
failing to respond appropriately to the real needs of older persons.
What is age discrimination? -
correct answer ✅Age discrimination involves treating persons in
an unequal fashion due to age in away that is contrary to the
human rights law.
What does the Ontario Human Rights Code prohibit? -
correct answer ✅The Ontario Human Rights Code prohibits age
discrimination in employment, housing accommodation, goods,
services, and facilities, contracts, and membership in trade and
vocational associations.
,PSW Chaper 10 - Caring About Culture
and Diversity Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
Assimilate/Assimilation -
correct answer ✅Adopt traditions of the larger society.
Some people have chosen to assimilate their styles of dress, eating
habits, or other behaviors, when with people from other cultures.
Examples are Muslim woman who no longer wear a hijab or a First
Nations person changes eating habits.
Bias -
correct answer ✅Bias occurs when a person is unable to
impartially judge the issues at hand because of a preformed point
of view.
Blended Family -
correct answer ✅A couple with two or more children, one or more
of whom is the natural child of both members of the couple and
one or more of whom is the stepchild of one member of the
couple.
, PSW Chaper 10 - Caring About Culture
and Diversity Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
Cultural Competence -
correct answer ✅The ability to interact effectively with people
from different cultures or socioeconomic backgrounds.
Cultural Conflict -
correct answer ✅Negative feelings and conduct that can result
when people from one culture try to impose their own set of values
and behaviors on people from another culture.
Culture -
correct answer ✅The characteristics of a group of people,
including language, values, beliefs, customs, habits, ways of life,
rules of behavior, music, and traditions. That are shared or perhaps
even passed from one generation to the next.
What factors influence Cultures? -
correct answer ✅Culture may be influenced by age, race, gender,
occupation, sexual orientation, or lifestyle, education, gender, life
events, work environment, adult disability, religion, geographical
location.
and Diversity Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
Ageism -
correct answer ✅Feelings of impatience, intolerance, or prejudice
towards others based on negative attitudes and stereotypes toward
a person or a group of people because of their age.
Why does Ageism have two concepts? -
correct answer ✅Ageism refers to two concepts: a socially
constructed way of thinking about older persons based on negative
attitudes and stereotypes about aging and a tendency to structure
society based on an assumption that everyone is young, thereby
failing to respond appropriately to the real needs of older persons.
What is age discrimination? -
correct answer ✅Age discrimination involves treating persons in
an unequal fashion due to age in away that is contrary to the
human rights law.
What does the Ontario Human Rights Code prohibit? -
correct answer ✅The Ontario Human Rights Code prohibits age
discrimination in employment, housing accommodation, goods,
services, and facilities, contracts, and membership in trade and
vocational associations.
,PSW Chaper 10 - Caring About Culture
and Diversity Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
Assimilate/Assimilation -
correct answer ✅Adopt traditions of the larger society.
Some people have chosen to assimilate their styles of dress, eating
habits, or other behaviors, when with people from other cultures.
Examples are Muslim woman who no longer wear a hijab or a First
Nations person changes eating habits.
Bias -
correct answer ✅Bias occurs when a person is unable to
impartially judge the issues at hand because of a preformed point
of view.
Blended Family -
correct answer ✅A couple with two or more children, one or more
of whom is the natural child of both members of the couple and
one or more of whom is the stepchild of one member of the
couple.
, PSW Chaper 10 - Caring About Culture
and Diversity Exam Questions &
Answers (Grade A+)
Cultural Competence -
correct answer ✅The ability to interact effectively with people
from different cultures or socioeconomic backgrounds.
Cultural Conflict -
correct answer ✅Negative feelings and conduct that can result
when people from one culture try to impose their own set of values
and behaviors on people from another culture.
Culture -
correct answer ✅The characteristics of a group of people,
including language, values, beliefs, customs, habits, ways of life,
rules of behavior, music, and traditions. That are shared or perhaps
even passed from one generation to the next.
What factors influence Cultures? -
correct answer ✅Culture may be influenced by age, race, gender,
occupation, sexual orientation, or lifestyle, education, gender, life
events, work environment, adult disability, religion, geographical
location.
