PSYC 260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cultural Psychology, Fundamental Attribution Error, American Authors
20 Feb 2015
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What is culture and why do we study it in the context of. 96% of participants are from western industrialized countries. This is a huge problem as only 12% of world population is westernized, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic. This is not representative of the world so who can say these studies are viable. Unrepresentative sample: muller-lyer illusion: demonstrates perceptions based on culture. North americans, industrialized nations view line a as longer. Because we see corners we identify the line as father away and longer. In an environment with rounded structures you don"t fall prey to this illusion. Environment can shape visual perception of world around you. Samples of only westernized people are biasing the results, we need to study people of different cultures and contexts: cultural psychology allows us to do 4 things, test cross cultural generality of a theory. Things that"re true for all humans around the globe: discover relationship between culture and the mind.
