LESSON 1 CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY Flashcards
Goals of Psychology
- 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.
• examining and testing them in people of differing cultural backgrounds.
Cross-Cultural Research and Psychology
• by including participants of more than one cultural background and then comparing data obtained across the cultural groups
Cross-Cultural Research and Psychology
relatively stable but with the potential to change across time
CULTURE
a dynamic system of rules, explicit and implicit, established by groups in order to ensure their survival, involving attitudes, values, beliefs, norms, and behaviors
CULTURE
defined by cross-generational education and transmission of cultural values and behaviors.
Personality
a label depicting the programmed patterns of life we have learned and become accustomed to.
CULTURE
a macro concept, a social phenomenon
CULTURE
refers to trends in music, art, and other expressions that become popular among a group of people.
Popular culture
comes and goes
fads
once the curiosity goes down it’ll be forgotten
fads
social construction
Race
ethnic groups
Ethnicity
a person’s country of origin
Nationality
behaviors or patterns of activities that a society or culture deems appropriate for men and women.
Gender
physical impairment in their senses, limbs, or other parts of their bodies
Disability
particular psychological outlook and characteristics that are shared by and unique to each orientation
Sexual Orientation
aspects of life that appear to be consistent across different cultures
• Etics
universal or pancultural truths or principles
• Etics
aspects of life that appear to differ across cultures
• Emics
refer to truths or principles that are culture-specific.
• Emics
serves the purpose of providing descriptive in-depth reports about how insiders of a culture understand their rituals.
• Emics
