Test Bank For Journey Across the Life Span Human Development and Health Promotion, 4th Edition By Elaine

Chapter 2: Culture

Multiple Choice

Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

____ 1. Which of the following is not a function of culture?

a.

Guides the way we communicate

b.

Determines our selection of health-care options

c.

Determines what we can achieve

d.

Guides our interpretation of illness

____ 2. The purpose of transcultural nursing is to:

a.

Decrease the need for hospitalization

b.

Promote patient satisfaction

c.

Increase home-care effectiveness

d.

Promote dependency

____ 3. The way we view social concerns and problems in the culture is termed cultural:

a.

Beliefs

b.

Values

c.

Clarification

d.

Sensitivity

____ 4. The way we greet each other within a culture is an example of:

a.

Folkways

b.

Mores

c.

Laws

d.

Sanctions

____ 5. Race categorizes the person by:

a.

Religion

b.

Physical characteristics

c.

Disease susceptibility

d.

Financial status

____ 6. The theory that there are no pure races is based on:

a.

Discovery of blood transfusion

b.

Common blood groups

c.

Contamination

d.

Migration

____ 7. Learning about the patient’s ancestry is termed cultural:

a.

Awareness

b.

Sensitivity

c.

Mores

d.

Diversity

____ 8. The health-care worker who believes that his or her values and ways of life are superior to those of the patient is practicing:

a.

Ethnocentrism

b.

Cultural awareness

c.

Cultural sensitivity

d.

Cultural mores

____ 9. When a person migrates to another country and takes on the practices of the dominant culture, this is considered:

a.

Assimilation

b.

Individualism

c.

Paternalism

d.

Ethnocentrism

____ 10. A 60-year-old Hispanic patient is admitted to the hospital. When caring for this patient, you would be sensitive to his belief of:

a.

Ramadan

b.

Hot and cold

c.

Fasting

d.

Paganism