Chapter 14

Question 1

cross-cultural psychology

Answer 1

Psychological research and theorizing that attempts to account for the psychological differences between and within different
cultural groups

Question 2

culture

Answer 2

1. psychological attributes of groups.

2. customs, habits, beliefs and values that shape emotions, behavior and life patterns

Question 3

enculturation

Answer 3

the process of socialization through which an individual acquires his or her native culture, mainly early in life.

Question 4

acculturation

Answer 4

process of social influence by which a person partially or fully acquires a new cultural outlook, either by having contact with, or by living in, a culture different from his culture of origin

Question 5

etics

Answer 5

the universal components of an idea; in cross-cultural psychology, aspects of a phenomenon that all cultures have in common

Question 6

emics

Answer 6

the locally relevant components of an idea;

in cross-cultural psychology, aspects of a phenomenon that are specific to a particular culture

Question 7

outgroup homogeneity bias

Answer 7

the sociopsychological phenomenon by which members of a group to which one does not belong seem more alike than do members of a group to which one does belong