PSYC370 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Acculturation, Extreme Poverty, Item Response Theory
11 Jan 2017
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Chapter 14: cultural variation in experience, behavior, and personality. Cross-cultural psychology: attempt to address research that compares different cultures. Individual differences may result from belonging to different cultural groups. Members from some groups may differ from each other. Trying to understand ways that particular personality differences vary from one culture to another or distinguish among individual"s within different. Customs, habits, beliefs, values that shape emotions, behavior, and life patterns. Language, modes of thinking, fundamental views of reality. Cultural differences are learned: enculturation: child learns from the culture they are born into, acculturation: moving from one country to another and gradually pick up new home culture. The importance of cross-cultural differences beforehand, direct/insensitive american style. Increasing international understanding, assessing the degree to which psychology applies to people around the world, and appreciating the possible varieties of human experience. Business styles thailand preserve dignity, japanese settle controversy (cid:498)respect(cid:499) differences within borders. Weird countries western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic.
