PSYC 3350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Random Assignment, Statistical Hypothesis Testing
31 Oct 2016
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Psyc 3350 chapter 4: methods for studying culture and psychology. Not recommended to use a (cid:498)shotgun(cid:499) method for studying cultures and to: interpreting the results can be very difficult if there is no theory randomly select cultures to study guiding the selection of the cultures. One common approach for selecting cultures is to choose samples based on a theoretical variable that you are investigating. A good way to choose samples is to look for cultures that vary on a specific theoretical dimension of interest, such as collectivism. If a similarity is found in a particular psychological process between two cultures that are maximally different, this would be compelling evidence for a high degree of universality for that process. Children from the baka and the west performed extremely similarly on the experimental tasks, suggesting that the development of a theory of mind is highly similar across the world: good example of an accessibility universal.
