Cross Cultural Studies Of Human Cognition

Question 0

What is the sambia?

Answer 0

• a tribe of Eastern Papua New Guinea
• who believe that femaleness is natural essence
• maleness must be cultivated

Question 1

Define culture?

Answer 1

• information acquired from other members of a species

- a group of people who have a shared context (geographical, linguistic, historical etc)

Question 2

What are the initiation practises used in the sambia to transform boys into men?

Answer 2

• piercing of the septum

- thrashing boys with sticks

Question 3

How much do we know about human psychology?

Answer 3

• 96% of all participants are from western industrialised countries
• 96% off all participants are from countriess which host only 12% of the worlds population
• 70% of all participants are psychology undergraduates

Question 4

What is cultural psychology?

Answer 4

• study the variability of human behaviour
• study the universals of human behaviour
• study the interaction between inherited and predispositions and cultural context

Question 5

Methods of cultural psychology?

Answer 5

• observation
• anthropological record
• surveys
• experimentation