Culture and socialization

Question 1

Etic

Answer 1

Focusing on universal behavioral categories. Perspecitve from outside of the system

Question 2

Emic

Answer 2

Culture-specific emphasis on the uniqueness of every culture. Studying the behavior from within culture.

Question 3

Cross-cultural psychology

Answer 3

Studying similarities and differences in individual psychological functioning in various cultural and ethnic group to develop a culture-inclusive and universal psychology.

Question 4

Absolutist vs relativist

Answer 4

Absolutism states that something is either 100% right or 100% wrong. Relativism states that nothing can be intrinsictally right or wrong

Question 5

Indigenous approach

Answer 5

study of human behavior or mind that is native, that is not transported from other regions, and that is designed for its people. Indigenous psychology is relativst

Question 6

Goals of cross-cultural psychology

Answer 6

(1) Testing the generality of existing psychological knowledge and theories.
(2) To explore cultures in order to discover cultural and psychological variations which are not present in the limited cultural experience of North American, European authors and schools.
(3) To attempt to assemble and integrate, into a broadly
based psychology, the results obtained when pursuing the first two goals to create a more nearly universal psychology.