PSYC14H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Response Bias, Homicide, Field Experiment
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4 methods for studying culture and psychology. 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. Making meaningful comparisons across cultures: after one has selected the culture to study, it"s critical that the researcher design a study to that the results can be meaningfully interpreted. Immerse oneself in another culture to learn it firsthand: an excellent way to gain a rich understanding of another culture, but it can be time- consuming and costly. If researchers contrast two similar cultures, they would not have as much variance in their. If you want to compare americans and indonesians, you"ve developed all of your materials in. In sum, reliable and valid cultural differences are more likely to be found with well-translated materials: b/c cross-cultural comparisons are meaningful only if participants understand the materials in the same way.
