Intro to Culture & Psychology
A subdiscipline within psychology that examines the cultural foundations of psychological processes and human behavior.
What is Cultural Psychology?
Cross-Cultural Validation Studies, Indigenous Cultural Studies, and Cross-Cultural Comparisons.
What are types of Cross-Cultural Research?
Bullying through electronic means, for example, using the Internet, social media, or sending text messages.
What is Cyberbullyig?
Qualities of responsiveness to the environment that exist from birth and evoke different reactions from people in the baby's world.
What is Temperament?
The process by which bicultural (or multicultural) individuals switch between one cultural meaning system and another depending on context
What is Cultural Frame Switching (Code Switching)?
The objective elements of culture and the subjective elements of culture.
What is Contents of Culture?
Differences that do not have exactly the same meaning within and across cultures; a lack of equivalence.
What is Bias?
Authoritarian, Authoritative, Disengaged, and Permissive
What are the Four Parenting Styles Based on the Two Dimensions: Warmth/Responsiveness and Control?
The process of fitting new ideas into a preexisting understanding of the world.
What is Assimilation?
The Five-Factor Model Major Traits
What are Neuroticism, Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness
an unique meaning and information system, shared by a group and transmitted across generations, that allows the group to meet basic needs of survival, pursue happiness, and well-being, and derive meaning from life.
What is Culture?
Exploratory vs. Hypothesis Testing, Presence or Absence of Contextual Factors, Structure vs. Level Oriented, and Individual vs. Ecological (Cultural) Level
What are the types of Cross-Cultural Comparisons?
The process by which individuals learn and adopt the ways and manners of their specific culture.
What is enculturation?
A type of temperament in which infants need time to make transitions in activity and experiences. Though they may withdraw initially or respond negatively, given time and support they will adapt and react positively.
What is Slow-to-warm-up?
These are the six identities listed as types of identities from our textbook
What are Personal, Collective, Relational, Cultural, Ethnic, and Racial?
Values, Beliefs, Norms, Attitudes, and Worldviews
What are the Subjective Elements of Culture?
Conceptual, Method, Measurement, Response, and Interpretational.
What are the Five types of Bias?
linkages between microsystems, such as Family and School
What is Mesosystem?
Psychological Autonomy, Hierarchical Relatedness, and Hybrid.
What are the Three Cultural Models of Attachment?
In Figure 6.2 Graphical Representation of the Five-Factor Theory (FFT), these are listed as Characteristic Adaptations.
What are Personal Strivings, Attitudes, Skills, Roles, and Relationships?
Aspects of life that appear to be consistent across different cultures; and aspects of life that appear to differ across cultures, truths or principles that are culture specific.
What are Etics and Emics?
Power Distance, Uncertainty Avoidance, Individualism/Collectivism, Masculinity/Feminity, and Long/Short-Orientation
What are the Five Hofstede Cultural Dimensions?
Postfigurative, Cofigurative, and Prefigurative
What are differing levels of Peer Influence of Socialization?
Preconventional, Conventional, and Postconventional.
What are the Kohlberg's theory of moral development?
the view of personality suggest that traits exist in all cultures, and influence behavior in multiple context
What is the Universal trait?