Week 8 Flashcards
Why is Culture in Psychology Important?
- Integral in personality
- Culture connects to representation of self
- Creates a base of similarity and difference
- Naturally tend to intercultural anxiety
Intercultural Anxiety
- Gudykunst 2005
- Affective component of uncertainty
- Ambiguity around unfamiliar situations
- Uncertainty
- Interaction Anxiety
3 Ways Culture can be studied
- Cross-cultural Validation Studies
- Indigenous Cultural Studies
- Cross-Comparisons
Cross Cultura Validation Studies
- Scales & Measures
- Improve on reliability and validity
Indigenous Cultural Studies
- Develop and use in depth descriptions
- Use rich, complex descriptions
- Used for comparison to other cultures
Cross-Cultural Comparisons
- Direct comparison between two or more cultures
- Comparisons are psychological in nature
- Often compared in applied experimental models
- Manipulation of IV, data collection or statistical comparisons
Cross-Cultural Comparisons
- Direct comparison between two or more cultures
- Comparisons are psychological in nature
- Often compared in applied experimental models
- Manipulation of IV, data collection or statistical comparisons
Investigating Cross Cultural Validation
Studies
* Does not assume reliablity or validity will be found in different cultures
* Unless there is evidence to support two cultures in their similarity
Reliability
- Consistency of a measure
- Can be applied and compared across different samples
Reliability
- Consistency of a measure
- Can be applied and compared across different samples
Validity
- Accurate measurements
- Measures what it is meant to
Validation Studies
Cross culturally these help identify:
* Effectiveness
* Changes
* New models
These are done to actually test how well the previous measures worked in a specific context
Indigenous Cultural Studies
- Develop or use existing theories
- Directly developed fro firsthand cultural immersion
- Make inferences and predictions using psychology variables
- Focus on single cultures
- Can be used to compare and contrast
Cross Cultural Comparisons
- Mostly found in cultural psychology
- Use existing knowledge to compare for similarities
- Also compares differences across variables of interest
- We are more similar than different
Qual Methods vs Quant Methods - Culture
- For cultural investigations a mixed methods approach is essential
- Qual produces insight and perspective
- Allows natural development of narrative
- Quant provides larger generalisability
- Impact and effects of same & different
- Provides evidence for reliablity and validity measures
Psychology is WEIRD
- Western
- Educated
- Industiralised
- Rich
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Democratic
Psychology has its own cultural profile that often focuses in the higher end of democratic countries
Effects of WEIRD Psychology
- Researchers should be unbiased but creates underrepresentation
- Researchers don’t need lived experience to research a topic e.g. depression
- Experience sparks questions that might not come up without lived experience
- Representation makes research more relevant
Cultural Responsivity
- Creates relevance for disenfranchised communities and cultures
- Essential to inclusive accurate representation