HDEV 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Cultural Psychology, Primitive Culture, Ethnocentrism

• School: Binghamton University
• Department: Human Development
• Course: HDEV 200
• Professor: Anne Merriwether

Document Summary

Cross cultural psychology-the systematic study of relationships between the cultural context human development and the behaviors that become established in the repertoire of individuals growing up in a particular culture. Human development- changes in physical, psychological, and social behavior as experienced by individuals across the lifespan from conception to death. Cross cultural human development- cultural similarities and differences in developmental processes and their outcomes as expressed by behavior in individuals and groups. Culture- that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, laws, customs and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society (primitive culture eb. Set of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual, and emotional features of society or a social group, and that it encompasses, in addition to art and literature lifestyles, ways of living together, value systems, traditions and beliefs. In contemporary cultures people come into contact with a variety of cultures through social media.