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Human Biology

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Set 11 Culture In Practice

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Question 1

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When would researchers use the 'practice approach'?

A) It can be used to illuminate the symbolic and practical effects of what people do.
B) It provides insight into culture change.
C) This approach helps us understand culture's stickiness or how it becomes habitual.
D) Some practices result from others and this approach helps reveal that kind of causal chain
E) All of the answers provided are correct.

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Question 2

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According to researchers, members of mainstream US culture often cannot read or gage masked emotions (they cannot easily tell how people really feel) because people in US culture:

A) focus on vocal inflections
B) look at mouths instead of eyes.
C) look for overt physiological signs of stress.
D) focus on people's hairstyles.
E) give words more attention than facial expressions.

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Question 3

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Which population is best prepared by their culture to grasp how people really feel even when people hide their emotions?

A) American
B) Japanese
C) Canadian
D) Jamaican
E) Egyptian

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