cross-cultural social psych

Question 1

what is culture?

Answer 1

concerns grp of people
involves social learning, we become member by growing up in that culture and learning how to behave /think in ways people in culture do. culture is changeable over time
different levels: transnational cultures (western culture), indv villages
if not universal then cultural

Question 2

thinking styles

Answer 2

analytic thinking: focus on object and their features, perceive as independent from their context
–>simpler causal analyses

holistic thinking: focus on context, how objects related to their context
–>more info when making causal attribution

Question 3

individualism and interdependence

Answer 3

İndividualism: people are independent and responsible for themselves
interdependence: people identified in terms of relations w other

–> cultural experience affects thinking and cultural processes

Question 4

cousins (1989) describing themselves

Answer 4

Americans: 58% about themselves, 9% social
Japanese: 19% themselves, 27% social
interdepence: apply personality traits in a way that is situation-specific
individualistic: apply personality traits across situations