Culture and Personality Studies – MCQs 50 Score: 0 Attempted: 0/50 Subscribe 1. Who is considered the founder of the Culture and Personality school of thought? (A) Franz Boas (B) Ruth Benedict (C) Margaret Mead (D) Edward Sapir 2. The book Patterns of Culture was written by: (A) Margaret Mead (B) Ruth Benedict (C) Edward Sapir (D) Clifford Geertz 3. Margaret Mead’s famous study of adolescence in Samoa is titled: (A) Coming of Age in Samoa (B) Sex and Temperament (C) Growing Up in New Guinea (D) Patterns of Culture 4. Culture and Personality studies primarily focus on the relationship between: (A) Language and Culture (B) Economy and Politics (C) Individual Psychology and Culture (D) Rituals and Religion 5. The term configurationalism is associated with: (A) Franz Boas (B) Ruth Benedict (C) Bronislaw Malinowski (D) Claude Lévi-Strauss 6. Who introduced the concept of Modal Personality? (A) Abram Kardiner (B) Ralph Linton (C) Cora DuBois (D) Franz Boas 7. The psychological approach in anthropology was developed mainly in: (A) Britain (B) USA (C) France (D) Germany 8. Ruth Benedict described cultures as: (A) Statistical data collections (B) Integrated wholes or patterns (C) Conflicting systems (D) Psychological profiles 9. Which culture did Ruth Benedict describe as “Apollonian” in Patterns of Culture? (A) Kwakiutl (B) Zuni (C) Dobu (D) Sioux 10. Margaret Mead’s fieldwork primarily focused on: (A) American Indians (B) Pacific Islanders (C) African Tribes (D) Inuit People 11. The concept of Basic Personality Structure was introduced by: (A) Abram Kardiner (B) Margaret Mead (C) Cora DuBois (D) Clifford Geertz 12. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is a study of: (A) Samoa (B) Japan (C) Bali (D) New Guinea 13. Who authored The Chrysanthemum and the Sword? (A) Ruth Benedict (B) Margaret Mead (C) Cora DuBois (D) Edward Sapir 14. Which anthropologist studied the Tchambuli people’s gender roles? (A) Ruth Benedict (B) Margaret Mead (C) Franz Boas (D) Clifford Geertz 15. Abram Kardiner worked closely with which sociologist? (A) Cora DuBois (B) Ralph Linton (C) Margaret Mead (D) Bronislaw Malinowski 16. Cora DuBois is known for her work on: (A) Modal Personality (B) Configurationalism (C) Culture Core (D) Culture Ecology 17. Who described cultures as “Dionysian” or “Apollonian”? (A) Ruth Benedict (B) Margaret Mead (C) Edward Sapir (D) Franz Boas 18. Which method did Culture and Personality studies frequently use? (A) Participant Observation (B) Life History Method (C) Survey Method (D) Comparative Linguistics 19. Who studied the Dobuans in Patterns of Culture? (A) Ruth Benedict (B) Margaret Mead (C) Franz Boas (D) Cora DuBois 20. Which of the following approaches was criticized for overgeneralizing cultures? (A) Configurationalism (B) Structuralism (C) Functionalism (D) Materialism 21. Which psychologist heavily influenced Culture and Personality studies? (A) Carl Jung (B) Sigmund Freud (C) Abraham Maslow (D) B.F. Skinner 22. The National Character studies were largely conducted during: (A) World War I (B) World War II (C) The Great Depression (D) Post-War Reconstruction 23. The concept of enculturation refers to: (A) Cultural diffusion (B) Biological adaptation (C) Learning culture from infancy (D) Cultural loss 24. Abram Kardiner’s approach combined anthropology with: (A) Sociology (B) Economics (C) Psychoanalysis (D) Political Science 25. Cora DuBois conducted her research on modal personality among the: (A) Alorese of Indonesia (B) Zuni of New Mexico (C) Dobu Islanders (D) Manus of New Guinea 26. Which anthropologist advocated that childhood experiences influence cultural patterns? (A) Franz Boas (B) Margaret Mead (C) Edward Sapir (D) Bronislaw Malinowski 27. Who is associated with projective tests in anthropological studies? (A) Cora DuBois (B) Abram Kardiner (C) Ruth Benedict (D) Edward Sapir 28. The Zuni culture was described as: (A) Dionysian (B) Apollonian (C) Militaristic (D) Patrilineal 29. Modal Personality represents: (A) The ideal personality (B) The statistically most frequent personality type in a culture (C) Deviant personality traits (D) Childhood traits only 30. Benedict’s work in Patterns of Culture mainly illustrates the idea that: (A) Cultures are biologically inherited (B) Cultures select certain traits and emphasize them (C) Cultures change rapidly (D) Cultures are universal 31. Margaret Mead argued that gender roles are primarily: (A) Biologically determined (B) Socially constructed (C) Genetically inherited (D) Environmentally fixed 32. The focus of national character studies was to: (A) Create psychological profiles of whole nations (B) Map cultural diffusion routes (C) Translate cultural scripts (D) Examine technological development 33. Cora DuBois combined psychological testing with: (A) Linguistic analysis (B) Participant observation (C) Historical records (D) Symbolic analysis 34. Who criticized Culture and Personality studies for being too deterministic? (A) Claude Lévi-Strauss (B) Clifford Geertz (C) Marvin Harris (D) Franz Boas 35. The concept that childhood upbringing shapes adult personality is termed: (A) Enculturation (B) Basic Personality Structure (C) Culture Core (D) Ethnocentrism 36. Which of the following criticized the generalization of national character studies? (A) Ruth Benedict (B) Clifford Geertz (C) Cora DuBois (D) Margaret Mead 37. The term “Anthropological Psychology” is closely related to: (A) Culture and Personality (B) Structuralism (C) Functionalism (D) Evolutionism 38. Ruth Benedict described Dobu culture as: (A) Apollonian (B) Dionysian (C) Militaristic (D) Egalitarian 39. What was a major critique of Culture and Personality studies? (A) Lack of ethnographic detail (B) Overemphasis on individual psychology (C) Ignoring historical change (D) Overgeneralization of cultures 40. The “Dionysian” cultural type, according to Benedict, represents: (A) Discipline and moderation (B) Emotional excess and impulsiveness (C) Ritual repetition (D) Rational thought 41. Who introduced the concept of culture and personality? (A) Franz Boas (B) Ruth Benedict (C) Margaret Mead (D) Edward Sapir 42. Margaret Mead’s fieldwork on gender roles emphasized the role of: (A) Environment (B) Heredity (C) Culture (D) Language 43. Benedict argued that culture selects: (A) All human potential equally (B) Certain personality traits for emphasis (C) Technological skills (D) Biological instincts 44. Ruth Benedict’s work was largely influenced by: (A) Franz Boas (B) Edward Sapir (C) Claude Lévi-Strauss (D) Bronislaw Malinowski 45. Which anthropologist wrote Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies? (A) Margaret Mead (B) Ruth Benedict (C) Cora DuBois (D) Abram Kardiner 46. Which Pacific society did Margaret Mead describe as having reversed gender roles compared to Western societies? (A) Arapesh (B) Mundugumor (C) Tchambuli (D) Zuni 47. Who emphasized that personality is shaped early in life through cultural patterns? (A) Abram Kardiner (B) Cora DuBois (C) Margaret Mead (D) Clifford Geertz 48. Benedict’s concept of culture as personality writ large suggests that: (A) Cultures evolve biologically (B) Cultures reflect dominant psychological traits of their members (C) Cultures are random collections of traits (D) Cultures are purely economic in nature 49. Margaret Mead’s research contributed significantly to the debate on: (A) Nature vs. Nurture (B) Language and Thought (C) Symbolic Anthropology (D) Economic Systems 50. The Culture and Personality school is also known as: (A) Structuralism (B) Configurationalism (C) Functionalism (D) Cultural Ecology