ch5 Flashcards
generalizability
do the findings generalize beyong the samples that were studied
methodological equivalence
For researchers to make meaningful comparisons across cultures, participants must understand the questions or situations the same way
power
capacity to detect an effect to the extent that such an effect really exists
reflects the quality of the study’s design
acquiescence bias
tendency to agree with most statements
reference group effects
people from different cultures tend to evaluate themselves by comparing themselves to different reference groups and thus to different standards
deprivation effects
expectation that in culture where there is chronically less personal safety, people would express valuing it more
between group manipulation
different groups of participants receive different levels of IV
within group manipulation
each participant receives more than one level of the IV
does not involve random assignment because every participant receives all levels/conditions
situation sampling
cultures do not affect people in abstract, they affect people in particular concrete ways
researchers can see how people respond to situations that are regularly experienced by people in another culture, they can get some perspective on how culture shape people’s ways of thinking
cultural priming
making certain ideas more accessible to particpants and if those ideas are associated with cultural meanings, researchers can investigate what happens when people start to think about them
tightness vs looseness
unpackaging
unpackaging cultural findings mean identifying the underlying variables that give rise to cultural differences
occam’s razor
the simplest solution to a problem tends to be the right one
a theory should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating, or shaving off anything extraneous
