PSYC1001 Final: Cross Cultural Psych
Cross-Cultural Psychology
• Dominant aust culture: European / anglo
• Asians = new comers
• I Aust = displaced marginalised
• Stereotypes can be true and untrue
• US dominant in psych
• Mainstream psych applied to universal vs culture-specific psych theories
→Definitions:
• Culture:
- Involves shared values, beliefs, attitudes and behave that distinguish
members of one group from another group
- Doesn’t have to be w/ ethnicity
i.e. work culture
• Shared Rules:
- Govern behave of group of people + enable members of the group to co-exist
+ survive
- Very important → learn from society + shapes what you think/know about
the world
- Implicit = not sure why you behave in such a way
• Enculturation:
- The normal process of absorbing + internalising the rules of one’s culture
- Taking on own culture around you
- Biases the way we view the world + strengthens bonds b/t us
- Culture is a way of life
- Hard to imagine life outside our own envir
→Language
- Language is the transmitter of cultural norms
- Very important for communication
→ B.F Skinner:
• behav + thinking determined by:
- genetics / biology
- devel experiences / envir
- current situation
• also: your knowledge of : metacognition
- something extra
- knowledge of affect of things on behav.
• Adaptive cognition:
- Seeing the big picture
- Part of psych literacy = applying psych principles to meet needs]
- Diff levels or domains of application:
1. Self and intermediate others:
- Focuses on application of psych principles adaptively to oneself
- + immediate set of fam members / friends
2. Local Communities:
- Focuses on application of psych principles in a way that is adaptive for one’s
local community
- Work places
3. Global perspectives:
- Focuses on applying psych principles in local, national or global contexts
- In a way that reflects an awareness of global issues
- Where it is highly likely one would need to play a leadership role
• Current psych status (ABCs) mediated by:
- biological substrates
- Current socio-cultural context
- Personal devel history
→Global Citizenship:
• UNSW graduate attributes:
- Capable of applying their discipline in local, national + int. contexts
- Culturally aware + respect diversity
- Capable of acting in enivr. friendly ways
→Hunter 2006:
• Globally competent person is one who:
- General knowledge of history / world
- Accept diff cultural values
- Celebrate diversity
- Aware of own personal characteristics, strengths /weaknesses, cultural
biases and norms
- Tolerant of ambiguity
→Rhoads and Szelenyi 2011 = global citizenship
→Cross-cultural research
• Cultural psych:
- Study of ways in which indiv are affected by the culture they live in
- ABCs
• Cross-cultural psych:
- Comparison of the similarities and diff in behav. across diff cultures
→ CC research issues:
• Measurement and conceptual equivalence
- Have to be very careful about assumptions
• Equivalent samples
Document Summary
I aust = displaced marginalised: dominant aust culture: european / anglo, asians = new comers, stereotypes can be true and untrue, us dominant in psych, mainstream psych applied to universal vs culture-specific psych theories. Involves shared values, beliefs, attitudes and behave that distinguish members of one group from another group. Doesn(cid:495)t have to be w/ ethnicity i. e. work culture: shared rules: Govern behave of group of people + enable members of the group to co-exist. Very important learn from society + shapes what you think/know about the world. Implicit = not sure why you behave in such a way: enculturation: The normal process of absorbing + internalising the rules of one(cid:495)s culture. Biases the way we view the world + strengthens bonds b/t us. Hard to imagine life outside our own envir. Language is the transmitter of cultural norms. B. f skinner: behav + thinking determined by: Devel experiences / envir current situation: also: your knowledge of : metacognition something extra.
