PSYC2030 Practice Questions - Wk9 Cross-cultural Contexts Flashcards
How did Corriveau (2009) modify Asch’s line length study for children?
3&4 year olds were asked which of three lines was the tallest. A group of three adults pointed to an incorrect line.
How do you define conformity?
Action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices
Are westerners conforming to non-conformity?
Yes
What did Corriveau & Harris (2010) try to understand about the Line length paradigm?
Practical usage, would children conform when asked to judge the correct string length to build a bridge
How did Corriveau and Harris frame the results of their study children’s conformity in practical situations?
All the children got the correct answer on the adapted line length paradigm (no conformity); social vs perceptual modes
Depends on the context. Asians don’t conform all the time
What did Corriveau et al 2013 find?
Social pressure influence on conformity (public vs private settings)
Change in generations of Asian immigration into America
Dylan et al 2015; what did they find?
Pom Pom or hammer to crush a cookie?
Asian conformity increased when consensus was manipulated
What could influence the high conformity of indigenous Malaysian children in Fong and Nielsen’s normative suboptimal tool use experiment?
Maybe its they learn socially
Or maybe task too unfamiliar; or they really want to follow the instructor because they came from so far away
What are the three types of searching techniques that Haun et al., 2006 tested?
Egocentric - relative to viewpoint of child
Object-centred - maintain position using salient landmark (not found but included)
Geocentric - relative to larger environment: where in the room?
What were the culturallly different results?
Africa - geocentric approach used
Western - Egocentric approach to finding
Why do we need to include more cultural groups in research?
Its important to understand whether the effect generalises, or is a product of cultural context
Penkunas & Coss 2013; what was tested?
Whether children would recognise historically dangerous predators faster; reaction time for detecting target embedded in matrices of lions vs deer thing
What are the problems with publishing cross cultural validations?
Validations of effects across different cultural groups can result in a null finding.
Arnett (2008) looked at top journals of 6 psych sub-disciplines, how generalisable were the findings of most publications?
68% of subjects came from the US; 96% WEIRD countries
Not very?
Ross et al., 2017; what did they try to examine?
Does cultural orientation bias MSR task performance in cultures where independence (recognition of self, distinct from others) is necessary
