Enculturation
This type of learning, essential to enculturation, occurs through direct teaching from parents, elders, and teachers.
Direct tuition
This term refers to the process when people move into another culture and they begin to adopt the norms and behaviours of the majority culture.
What is acculturation?
This researcher developed the famous Cultural Dimensions Theory after studying IBM employees across different countries.
Who is Geert Hofstede?
This psychologist is associated with the development of social cognitive theory.
Who is Albert Bandura?
This type of research design involves studying the same group of participants over an extended period of time.
What is longitudinal research?
These unwritten rules of behaviour, such as greetings and table manners, are learned through enculturation.
What are social norms?
This psychologist developed the four acculturation strategies.
Cultures that value group harmony and loyalty over personal goals are classified as this.
What is collectivist?
In social cognitive theory, this process involves learning behaviours by watching others and imitating their actions.
What is observational learning?
This term refers to the extent to which the findings of a study can be applied to other settings, populations, or times.
What is generalisability?
This psychological concept refers to the deep, emotional attachment a person has to their culture, which is strengthened through enculturation.
What is cultural identity?
If an individual maintains both their original culture and aspects of the new culture, they are following this acculturation strategy.
What is integration?
Berry’s (1967) study investigated how different cultures influence this type of social behaviour.
What is conformity?
Bandura's famous 1961 experiment demonstrated observational learning using children and this object.
What is a Bobo doll?
This term refers to the cues or signals in a study that might influence participants to behave in a certain way.
What are demand characteristics?
Carried out longitudinal research - they studied children over a long period of time (25 months) - this allowed them to see changes in the children.
Who are Odden & Rochat (2004)?
If a person feels disconnected from both their original and new cultures, this is the acculturation strategy they are using.
What is marginalisation?
Berry’s study used a version of this well-known psychological experiment to measure conformity.
What is the Asch conformity test?
In social cognitive theory, this type of learning occurs when an individual observes the consequences of another person's behaviour.
What is vicarious learning?
This approach studies cultures from an outsider's perspective, often comparing behaviours across different societies.
What is an etic approach?
In this type of learning, children engage in an activity and then transfer that learning to later situations.
What is participatory learning?
This term refers to the stress or difficulties a person experiences when adjusting to a new culture.
What is acculturative stress?
Berry’s study compared the conformity behaviours of the Inuit and this West African group.
Who are the Temne?
This term refers to an individual’s belief in their ability to succeed in specific situations, which plays a crucial role in motivation to learn a new behaviour.
What is self-efficacy?
This term refers to the degree to which different raters or observers give consistent ratings or measurements on the same phenomenon.
What is inter-rater reliability?