LESSON 1 CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY

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Goals of Psychology

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1. build a body of knowledge about people

2. taking that body of knowledge and applying it to intervene in people’s lives, hopefully to make those lives better.

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• examining and testing them in people of differing cultural backgrounds.

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Cross-Cultural Research and Psychology

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• by including participants of more than one cultural background and then comparing data obtained across the cultural groups

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Cross-Cultural Research and Psychology

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relatively stable but with the potential to change across time

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CULTURE

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a dynamic system of rules, explicit and implicit, established by groups in order to ensure their survival, involving attitudes, values, beliefs, norms, and behaviors

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CULTURE

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defined by cross-generational education and transmission of cultural values and behaviors.

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Personality

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a label depicting the programmed patterns of life we have learned and become accustomed to.

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CULTURE

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a macro concept, a social phenomenon

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CULTURE

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refers to trends in music, art, and other expressions that become popular among a group of people.

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Popular culture

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comes and goes

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fads

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once the curiosity goes down it’ll be forgotten

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fads

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social construction

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Race

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ethnic groups

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Ethnicity

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a person’s country of origin

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Nationality

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behaviors or patterns of activities that a society or culture deems appropriate for men and women.

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Gender

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physical impairment in their senses, limbs, or other parts of their bodies

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Disability

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particular psychological outlook and characteristics that are shared by and unique to each orientation

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Sexual Orientation

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aspects of life that appear to be consistent across different cultures

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• Etics

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universal or pancultural truths or principles

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• Etics

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aspects of life that appear to differ across cultures

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• Emics

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refer to truths or principles that are culture-specific.

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• Emics

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serves the purpose of providing descriptive in-depth reports about how insiders of a culture understand their rituals.

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• Emics