Week 08: Chapter 13

Question 1

cross-cultural psychology

Answer 1

Psychological research and theorizing that attempts to account for the psychological differences between and within different cultural groups.

Question 2

enculturation

Answer 2

The process of socialization through which an individual acquires his or her native culture, mainly early in life.

Question 3

acculturation

Answer 3

The process of social influence by which a person partially or fully acquires a new cultural outlook, either by having contact with, or by living in, a culture different from his or her culture of origin.

Question 4

emics

Answer 4

The locally relevant components of an idea; in cross-cultural psychology, aspects of a phenomenon that are specific to a particular culture.

Question 5

etics

Answer 5

The universal components of an idea; in cross-cultural psychology, aspects of a phenomenon that all cultures have in common.

Question 6

deconstructionism

Answer 6

A philosophy that argues reality does not exist apart from hu- man perceptions, or constructions, of it.

Question 7

outgroup homogeneity bias

Answer 7

The socio- psychological phenomenon by which members of a group to which one does not belong seem more alike than do members of a group to which one does belong.