Dr. Roberts conducts a study in which one group of participants counts the number of syllables in eachmember of a list of twenty words, and the second group creates stories from the same set of words. Whenlater asked to write down as many of the previously seen words as possible, the second group of participantsrecalls more words than the first group. This study shows the importance of

Describe a situation in which you experienced unfamiliar cultural patterns. what was going on? how did this experience make you feel? does learning more about culture make encountering cultural diversity easier? why or why not?

Marian recently made the decision to try to re-wallpaper her own kitchen—which was a mistake given her personality! to compound the mistake, she selected a complex wallpaper pattern that included flowers and trees. each time she put one strip of paper on the wall, she became increasingly upset if there was not a perfect match from the pattern of one strip to the next. if one flower was off by as much as one-tenth of an inch, she would tear down the strip, remove the excess paste, and try again with the next strip. over eight hours after she started this job, she has only succeeded at putting up six strips of wallpaper, which covered about 10 percent of the room in which she was working. marian may suffer from personality disorder.

Spanish for "estate," this was a type of plantation or other economic activity in spain's "new world" colonies.