lecture 8:

Question 1

cross cultural psych:

Answer 1

seeks to determine if research results in psychology are universal across cultures of specific to particular cultures

Question 2

etic:

Answer 2

UNIVERSAL

Question 3

emic:

Answer 3

SPECIFIC

Question 4

methodologial issues related to culture:

Answer 4

choice of research problem, hypothesis, IV and DV may be culturally constrained. participants representative? surveys and questionnaires, appropriately translated, vulnerable to specific culture

Question 5

FAE:

Answer 5

peoples inclination to see behavior as the result of dispositions corresponding to the apparent o nature of the behavior

Question 6

ethnocentrism:

Answer 6

FAE thought to be invariable across cultures

Question 7

FAE was harder to demonstrate with:

Answer 7

asian populations than European-american populations

Question 8

culture and fundamental attribution error perhaps stems from a stronger:

Answer 8

East Asian tendency to recognize the causal power of situations and cultural conceptions of personality. analytic versus holistic cognition