Do you think that creativity can be sparked when a person is exposed to a foreign culture?

Activity 4: Essay I

Activity Description

Your responses must be supported and substantiated by the information discussed by the text authors. Outside sources may be used to support, not replace, the text material. Cite your work in APA format. All assignments MUST be typed, double-spaced, in APA style, and must be written at graduate level English.

Your response to each question should be 1 pages per question.
Your entire assignment should be 8 pages plus a title and reference page.

1) Studies show that people in countries such as Japan and Korea tend to evaluate themselves critically in surveys; they tend to consider self as not necessarily hard-working. Explain the reasons for such cultural response bias.

2) Native Americans and Alaska Natives report a higher prevalence of pain symptoms and painful conditions when compared with the general population of the United States. What is your understanding of these findings?

3) It is assumed that multicultural experiences foster the creative expansion of ideas. Consider expatriate artists and writers whose brilliant insights emerged when they left their homeland settled in a foreign country. Do you think that creativity can be sparked when a person is exposed to a foreign culture?

4) A study of samples in 32 countries showed that individualism was positively correlated with higher expressivity of emotions, especially happiness and surprise. Individualism was negatively correlated with expression of sadness. What is your understanding of these research findings?

5) In 1968, the DSM-II believed homosexuality to be a mental disorder. Years later, in the early 1970s, the American Psychiatric Association voted on this belief. The majority vote won and, homosexuality was removed from the DSM. However, there are still some individuals who believe homosexuality is a mental disorder. What is your understanding?

6) Research shows that in Buddhist and Western societies may encourage two somewhat different types of motivation, namely maximizing and satisfying. Explain both briefly.

Activity Outcomes

Identify cognitive biases and their consequences in professional practice
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Book
Shiraev, E. & Levy, D. (2021). Cross-cultural psychology: Critical thinking and contemporary applications. (7th ed. ). Routledge. ISBN: 978-0-367-19939-5

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES:
These resources must be used to complete the assignments.
Book
American Psychiatric Association (2013). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. (5th).
Book
American Psychological Association (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association. (7th ed.).

All books can find in Library Genesis.

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