EPPP UPDATED EVALUATION EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Field Theory - ✔✔Approach developed by Kurt Lewin, who
proposed that various forces in the environment interact and combine to yield a final
course of action. It suggests that to understand an individual's behavior, one must
comprehend the totality of his or her environment (biological and psychological) within
the present context.
✔✔Rosenstock's Health Belief Model - ✔✔A psychological model that seeks to explain
how and why people use health services.The four constructs are; Perceived
Susceptibility, Percevied Severity, Percevied Barriers, and Perceived Benefits.
Perceived Barriers are the most reliable predictors of health behaviors, followed by
susceptibility, benefits, and severity, respectively.
✔✔The Eurocentric worldview is _____ - _______ and _______-______. - ✔✔furture
oriented, time determined.
✔✔The Africentric worldview is ______ - _____ - ______ oriented and _____ - _____. -
✔✔here - and - now, event determined.
✔✔Diversity - ✔✔The heterogeneity of a particular demographic characteristic within a
defined group.
, ✔✔Institutional Racism - ✔✔The maintenance or enforcement of structural mechanisms
in organizations that discriminate against non-dominant groups. This form of racism is
not necessarily deliberate or consciously enacted.
✔✔Individual Racism - ✔✔A personal attitude or philosophy that attempts to exploit or
devalue a racial group. This can be expressed implicitly through unconscious reactions,
or explicitly through behaviors and overt attitudes.
✔✔Internalized Racism - ✔✔An oppressed group accepts and internalizes negative
stereotypes against themselves. Even when not accepted, Stereotype threat suggests
that biases influence behavior due to apprehension of prejudice.
✔✔The stages of Cultural Identity Developement are _____, ______, ______, ______,
________. - ✔✔conformity, dissonance, resistance and immersion, introspection,
integrative awareness.
✔✔Emic Approach (Indigenous) - ✔✔A method of research that involves intensive study
of psychological phenomena within separate cultures. Psychologists study behavior
from within the system, examining only one culture at a time. The goal is to discover
rather than impose a structure on the research and to use criteria relative to internal
cultural characteristics.
✔✔Etic Approach (Universalist) - ✔✔A quest for commonalities across many or all
cultures. Psychologists study behavior from a position outside the system. They
examine two or more cultures and compare them using criteria that are considered
absolute or universal.
✔✔High-context Communication Style - ✔✔Relies on nonverbal communication and
contextual factors to provide the meaning of a message, and often require consensus to
make and communicate decisions.
✔✔Low-context Communication Style - ✔✔Relies less on consensus and places more
value on using the literal meaning of words to convey a message.
✔✔High-context Emotional Expressivity - ✔✔Predominantly low levels of public
emotional expressivity is accepted.
✔✔Low-context Emotional Expressivity - ✔✔Predominantly higher levels of public
emotional expressivity is accepted.
✔✔Acculturation - ✔✔The degree to which a member of a culturrally diverse group
accepts and adheres to the values, customs, and behaviors of his or her own group and
the dominant group.
AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Field Theory - ✔✔Approach developed by Kurt Lewin, who
proposed that various forces in the environment interact and combine to yield a final
course of action. It suggests that to understand an individual's behavior, one must
comprehend the totality of his or her environment (biological and psychological) within
the present context.
✔✔Rosenstock's Health Belief Model - ✔✔A psychological model that seeks to explain
how and why people use health services.The four constructs are; Perceived
Susceptibility, Percevied Severity, Percevied Barriers, and Perceived Benefits.
Perceived Barriers are the most reliable predictors of health behaviors, followed by
susceptibility, benefits, and severity, respectively.
✔✔The Eurocentric worldview is _____ - _______ and _______-______. - ✔✔furture
oriented, time determined.
✔✔The Africentric worldview is ______ - _____ - ______ oriented and _____ - _____. -
✔✔here - and - now, event determined.
✔✔Diversity - ✔✔The heterogeneity of a particular demographic characteristic within a
defined group.
, ✔✔Institutional Racism - ✔✔The maintenance or enforcement of structural mechanisms
in organizations that discriminate against non-dominant groups. This form of racism is
not necessarily deliberate or consciously enacted.
✔✔Individual Racism - ✔✔A personal attitude or philosophy that attempts to exploit or
devalue a racial group. This can be expressed implicitly through unconscious reactions,
or explicitly through behaviors and overt attitudes.
✔✔Internalized Racism - ✔✔An oppressed group accepts and internalizes negative
stereotypes against themselves. Even when not accepted, Stereotype threat suggests
that biases influence behavior due to apprehension of prejudice.
✔✔The stages of Cultural Identity Developement are _____, ______, ______, ______,
________. - ✔✔conformity, dissonance, resistance and immersion, introspection,
integrative awareness.
✔✔Emic Approach (Indigenous) - ✔✔A method of research that involves intensive study
of psychological phenomena within separate cultures. Psychologists study behavior
from within the system, examining only one culture at a time. The goal is to discover
rather than impose a structure on the research and to use criteria relative to internal
cultural characteristics.
✔✔Etic Approach (Universalist) - ✔✔A quest for commonalities across many or all
cultures. Psychologists study behavior from a position outside the system. They
examine two or more cultures and compare them using criteria that are considered
absolute or universal.
✔✔High-context Communication Style - ✔✔Relies on nonverbal communication and
contextual factors to provide the meaning of a message, and often require consensus to
make and communicate decisions.
✔✔Low-context Communication Style - ✔✔Relies less on consensus and places more
value on using the literal meaning of words to convey a message.
✔✔High-context Emotional Expressivity - ✔✔Predominantly low levels of public
emotional expressivity is accepted.
✔✔Low-context Emotional Expressivity - ✔✔Predominantly higher levels of public
emotional expressivity is accepted.
✔✔Acculturation - ✔✔The degree to which a member of a culturrally diverse group
accepts and adheres to the values, customs, and behaviors of his or her own group and
the dominant group.
