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Week 1 - Introduction Flashcards

1
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Culture, what is it?

A

a set of implicit and explicit
guidelines/information that individuals acquire as members of a particular society or context. (e.g., world-view, emotions, relations & behavior towards others, supernatural-forces/gods, natural environment etc.)

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Enculturation?

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a way of transmitting cultural guidelines to the next generation

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Cultural:
1. Boundaries?
2. Stable or not?
3. Variations?

A
  1. not distinct, often unclear
  2. dynamic and change over time
  3. as many variations within cultures as between cultures!
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Three levels of culture

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  1. Tertiary level = “façade of a culture”
  2. Secondary level = “social norms”
  3. Primary/Deepest level = “roots”
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Tertiary level = “façade of a culture”

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explicit manifest culture, visible to the outsider;
- social rituals
- traditional dress
- national cuisine
- festive occasions
…

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Secondary level = “social norms”

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underlying shared beliefs and rules, known to
the insiders but rarely shared with outsiders

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Primary/Deepest level = “roots”

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rules known to all, obeyed by all, but implicit, and generally out of awareness (hidden, stable and resistant to change)

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(Cross-)Cultural Psychology:
- Absolutist approach
- Relativist approach

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  • Absolutist approach: Psychological phenomena are the same across cultures, processes and behaviors vary
  • Relativist approach: Psychological phenomena only exist within the context of a culture
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Cultural psychology focuses on cultural variation in terms of the psychological consequences of culture

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  • different meaning systems originating from different environments
  • mind and culture are entangled
  • thoughts are shaped by contexts
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‘Humans seek meaning in their actions, and the shared ideas that make up cultures provide the kinds of meanings that people can derive from their experiences.

Cultural meanings are thus entangled with the ways that the mind operates, and we cannot consider the mind separate
from its culture.’

A

Heine, 2016
(relativist)

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11
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Universality vs Cultural variability

A
  • Abstract > Universality
  • Concrete > Variability
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Degrees of Universality x4

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  1. Non-universal (cultural invention)
  2. Existential universal (variation in function)
  3. Functional universal (variation in accessibility)
  4. Accessibility universal (no variation)
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Degree of Universality: Non-universal

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Cognitive tool not found in all cultures (other criteria are thus irrelevant)

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Degree of Universality:
Existential universal

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Cognitive tool found in all cultures that serves different function(s) and is available to some degree in different cultures

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Degree of Universality:
Functional universalism

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Cognitive tool found in all cultures that serves the same function(s) but is accessible to different degrees in different cultures

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16
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Degree of Universality: Accessibility universal

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Cognitive tool found in all cultures that serves the same function(s) and is accessible to the same degree

17
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Cultural Dimensions Theory
(Hofstede, 2001)

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• Individualism–collectivism (How interdependent is a culture?)

• Uncertainty avoidance
(How do people deal with ambiguity?)

• Power distance
(How hierarchical is a culture?)

• Long-term/short-term orientation
(Connection with tradition, also economic orientation)

• Masculinity/femininity
(How distinct are gender roles? Distribution of classical male/female traits)

18
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Socio-economic status (SES): Differences in health behaviors within western cultures

  • smoking
  • alcohol
  • food
A

• Smoking: lower SES predicts likelihood of smoking, higher
SES predicts recent attempts to quit

• Lower SES predicts higher alcohol consumption

• Higher SES predicts more balanced and healthy food
intake

19
Q

Dealing with differences:
- Color-blind approach
- Multicultural approach

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  • Color-blind approach:
    > Emphasizes common human nature, ignores cultural differences
    > Research has demonstrated that even trivial distinctions between groups often lead to discrimination.
  • Multicultural approach:
    > Recognizes that group identities are different (particularly minorities)
    > Ignoring such group differences tends to lead to negative responses.
20
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Ethnocentrism

A

Perceiving one’s own culture as standard of comparison

21
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Error of Ethnocentrism

A

Tendency to judge people from other cultures negatively by comparing them to your own culture

22
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Who is WEIRD?

A

• Western
• Educated
• Industrialized
• Rich
• Democratic

23
Q

WEIRD countries only make up about 16% of the world’s
population!

A
  • WEIRD subjects make up 96% of all psychology research
  • 70% of participants are psychology undergraduates
  • 99% of first authors come from Western universities
24
Q

WEIRD = outliers?

A

differences appearing in…
• visual perception,
• fairness,
• cooperation,
• spatial reasoning,
• categorization and inferential induction,
• moral reasoning,
• reasoning styles,
• self-concepts and related motivations
• heritability of IQ.

25
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Research methods: approaches

A

• Quantitative
• Qualitative

26
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Measurement of Quality: Reliability & Validity

A

Reliability:
> Reproducibility
> Replicability
> Precision

Validity:
> Internal validity
> External validity
> Construct validity
> Ecological validity

27
Q

Response bias: 3 levels

A
  • Extremity bias (1 out of 1-7)
  • Moderacy bias (4 out of 1-7)
  • Acquiescence bias (7 out of 1-7)
28
Q

Response bias:
> influenced by culture
> what to do?

A
  • Forced choice answers (yes/no etc)
  • Standardization
  • Reverse-scoring items
29
Q

Reference group effects: how to avoid

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  • Providing specific scenarios as questions
  • Asking quantitative questions (e.g. frequencies of specific behavior)
  • Using behavioral and physiological measures
30
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Deprivation effects: The tendency for people (or cultures) to report to value what they would like, not what they have

A

No clear solution for this bias, except to interpret results with
caution

31
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  • Between-group/subject:
  • Within-group/subject:
A
  • Between-group/subject: random assignment over conditions
  • Within-group/subject: need everyone to be exposed to all conditions
32
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Dependent variable can come from…

A
  • Behavioral responses: ratings, correct answers, etc
  • Physiological measures: brain, hormones, heart rate, etc
33
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Unpackaging = identifying underlying variables that create cultural differences

A
  1. Demonstrate a cultural difference in the proposed underlying variable.
  2. Show that underlying variable is related to cultural difference in question.
34
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Situation sampling: a two-step method

–> two types of analyses: ??

A
  1. Participants from each culture generate situations
    during which they experience some psychological phenomenon
  2. Another group of participants assesses full compiled list of situations generated by both cultures in Step 1.

This allows for two types of analyses:
• Examining cultural differences in how participants
respond to the same situations
• Examining cultural differences in the types of
experiences/situations that people have

35
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Cultural priming: Entails inducing cultural ways of thinking that were not
enculturated by the participant’s cultural group

A

Assumes that while some ways of thinking may be different between Cultures A and B, Culture A’s way of thinking may still be present to some degree in Culture B

E.g.,: Priming individualism by forcing participants to use firstperson singular pronouns (I, me), vs. priming collectivism by
forcing the use of first-person plural pronouns (we, us)

36
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Mixed methods =

A

Best solution

37
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Interpretation bias:

A
  • Belief perseverance effect
    (Holding on to your views in the face of conflicting evidence)
  • Self-fulfilling prophecy
    (Expectations lead to thinking you see confirmatory evidence)
  • Availability bias
    (Overestimation of frequency of occurrence of salient events)
  • Representativeness bias
    (Faulty categorizing based on inaccurate features)
  • Fundamental attribution error
    (Overestimating internal causes of behavior (i.e. influence of personality) and underestimating situational context)

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