Week 10

Question 1

Cultural Psychology

Answer 1

Studies the way that people are affected by the culture they live in

e.g. effects of Trauma on Syria Diaspora

Question 2

Cross-Cultural Psychology

Answer 2

• Compares the similarites and differences between two cultures
• Could be thoughts attitudes feelings

e.g. comparing personality traits across collectivist and individualist cultures

Question 3

3 Theoretical Assumptions

Answer 3

1. Absolutism - phenomena are the same across cultures
2. Relativism - Behaviour is culturally determined
3. Universalism - Principles underly behaviour but culture determines the display of principles

Question 4

Cross Cultural Methodology

Answer 4

Emic Perspective - Focus on one cultural group and particular factor of it
Etic Perspective - Search for commonalities or differences across cultures
Equavalence

Question 5

Emic Perspective

Answer 5

• The insider’s perspective
• Focus on one cultural group within the culture
• Usually unfeasable unless bicultural

Question 6

Etic Perspective

Answer 6

• Cross cultural perspective of factors
• Commonalities or differences across cultures
• Perspective of an outsider looking in on a culture without taking part in it

Question 7

Language Equavilance

Answer 7

• Translating one language into another
• Then translate in back into first language
• Discern if there are any discrepancies and the meaning is not lost

Question 8

Phenomena Equivalence

Answer 8

• Some factors may not have equivalence in different cultures
• e.g. date of birth and age don’t hold value in aboriginal cultures

Question 9

Cultural Sensitivity

Answer 9

• Knowledge, skills, attitudes and beleifs enable positive responses
• Effective & Supportive responses across cultures

Question 10

Cultural Responsitivity

Answer 10

• Being open to new ideas that may conflict with current ideas
• Being able to see differences as equal

Question 11

Define Disability

Answer 11

• A condition of the body or mind - Impairment
• Makes it more difficult to do certain activities - Activity Limitation
• Limits interaction with the world - participant restirctions
• Intellectual, physical, psycho-social

Question 12

3 Approaches to Studying Culture

Answer 12

1. Evoked Culture
2. Transmitted Culture
3. Universals

Question 13

Evoked culture

Answer 13

• Universal Underlying Mechanism e.g. food sharing
• Environmental differences activate mechanism - Food Shortage
• Evoked cooperation/Aggression - How we share food

Question 14

Transmitted Culture

Answer 14

Self Concept
* Communion or interdependence
Self Enhancement
* North Americans more positive
* Impression management
* Real difference in self concept

Question 15

Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory

Answer 15

Four Factors emerged in Personality
1. Dependability - Responsibility, trustworthiness - Neuroticism
2. Interpersonal Relatedness - harmony, thrift, tradition - No overlaps
3. Social Potency - Leadership, adventurousness - Extraversion
4. Individualism - Logical orientation, defensiveness - Agreeableness

Question 16

Minimal Bias Cultural Tests

Answer 16

• Culture Fair Intelligence Test
• Kaifman Assessment Battery for Children
• Leiter International Performance Scale
• Progressive Matrices