Week 1

Question 0

Development of euro-American children considered

Answer 0

Normative

Question 1

Cultural and biological evolution are

Answer 1

Simultaneous

Coexist

Question 2

Cultural expectation

Answer 2

Then affect reality

Question 3

Culture exists

Answer 3

In general

And continues to exist because it is practiced (exhibited and expressed through behavior and thought processes)

Question 4

Ingredients of culture

Answer 4

Routines and practices
Values and beliefs
Material (technology) and symbolic (language, math) tools
Traditions (rituals and behaviors passed down generations; significant events- regression not appropriate after such public event)
Shared meaning

Question 5

Value and utility of cultural psych research

Answer 5

Helps examine how our own belief systems affect what we study and how we interpret behavior (of ourselves and others)
-value of categorical organization vs. functional organization
Helps disentangle variables confounded in our culture (Freud)
Allows us to examine the universality of psychological theories
-universality is assumed, but may not be true for every culture
Puts greater focus on context of development
Contributions of culture on psychological functioning
-institutional level
-interpersonal level
-interpersonal level

Question 6

Context

Answer 6

Good predictor of behavior

Question 7

General assumptions about development and culture

Answer 7

Primitive and more complex
-form of social Darwinism
->no culture is not sophisticated or complex
How idea of adaptation fits in
-just current form, not nec. better