PSYC 2740 Chapter Notes - Chapter 17: Acculturation, Linguistic Relativity, Lexical Hypothesis
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Evoked culture is defined as cultural differences created by differing environmental conditions activating a predictable set of responses. Japanese people tend to explain events holistically with attention to relationships, context and the links between the focal object nad the field as a whole. Americans tend to explain events analytically with the object detached from its context, attributes of objects or people assigned to categories and a reliance on rules about the categories to explain behaviour. Self enhancement is the tendency to describe and present oneself using positive or socially valued attributes like kind, understanding, intelligent and industrious. Americans, australians, english and belgians were highest on extraversion and ugandans, ethiopians and chinese were lowest. A dimension of transmitted culture pertains to within-culture variations although these have not received the same degree of attention as cross- cultural variations. A type of intracultural variation pertains to the effects of historical era on personality. The study of cultural iniversals has long been in disfavor.