Show:
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
100
This is the idea or images that one has about oneself and how and why one behaves.
What is self-concept.
100
Studies that utilize rich, complex, in-depth descriptions of culture, and cultural differences to predict and test for differences in a psychological variable are called this.
What are cultural studies.
100
This is the process by which we learn and internalize the rules and patterns of the society in which we live. This process, which occurs over time, involves learning and mastering societal norms, attitudes, values, and belief systems.
What is socialization.
100
Easy, difficult, and slow-to-warm-up are the three major categories of what?
What is temperament
100
People do this on the basis of similarities and attach labels (words) to groups of objects perceived to have something in common.
What is categorize.
200
People in this type of culture focus on their interdependent status with other people and strive to meet or even create duties and social responsibilities.
What is a collectivistic culture.
200
These are studies that compare cultures on some psychological variable of interest.
What are cross-cultural comparisons.
200
This type of parenting expects unquestioned obedience and view the child as needing to be controlled.
What are authoritarian parents.
200
What is the bond that develops between the infant and its primary caregiver known as?
What is attachment.
200
This term refers to the tendency to remember the first or last items in a list.
What is the serial position effect.
300
These are ideological belief systems about the world.
What is a cultural worldview
300
This refers to studies in which researchers create conditions to establish cause-effect relationships, in which participants are randomly assigned to groups and compared across conditions.
What are experiments.
300
This is Baumrind's style of parenting in which parents allow children to regulate their own lives and provide few firm guidelines.
What is the permissive style.
300
What is the area of psychology that studies how thinking skills are developed over time?
What is cognitive development.
300
This is when societal stereotypes about a group (i.e. concerning academic or intellectual performance) can actually influence the performance of individuals from that group.
What is the stereotype threat.
400
These are inferences people make about the causes of events and their own and others' behaviors. They also represent the ways we understand the world around us and the behavior of others.
What are attributions.
400
This refers to the degree to which a finding, measurement, or statistic is consistent.
What is reliability.
400
This generally refers to the products of the socialization process---the subjective, underlying, psychological aspects of culture that become internalized through development.
What is enculturation.
400
This is the process of fitting new ideas into a preexisting understanding of the world.
What is accommodation.
400
Perceptions that involve an apparent discrepancy of how an object looks and what it actually is.
What are optical illusions.
500
This is the tendency to attribute one's successes to personal factors and one's failures to situation factors and a bias in which people tend to attribute good deeds and successes to their own internal attributes, but attribute bad deeds or failures to external factors.
What is the self-serving bias.
500
Most researchers inevitably interpret the data they obtain through their own cultural filters, which can affect their interpretations to varying degrees. This is known as what?
What is bias.
500
This type of parenting style emphasizes a sensitivity to a child's maturity and encourages warmth and affection for children.
What is the authoritative parenting style.
500
This refers to adapting to a different culture.
What is acculturation.
500
Who asserts that culture is generally viewed as a set of mental representations to perceive the world?
Who is Hofstede.