PSY3CCG: Psychology of Culture, Community, and Global Citizenship Flashcards

Flashcards on Culture, Community, and Global Citizenship lecture notes.

Culture

A unique meaning and information system, shared by a group and transmitted across generations, that allows the group to meet basic needs of survival, coordinate socially to achieve a viable existence, transmit social behavior, pursue happiness and well-being, and derive meaning from life.

Culture

A set of non-genetically transmissible information that is available, accessible, and applicable for a group of people.

Culture

Any kind of information that is acquired from other members of one’s species through social learning that can influence an individual’s behaviours; a group of people existing within some kind of shared context.

Subcultures

Cultures within a broader culture, often very granular.

Cultural Psychology

Focuses on the interplay between psychological processes and socially constructed meaning, emphasizing that psychology cannot be understood without understanding culture.

Cross-cultural Psychology

Focuses on similarities and differences across cultural and ethnic groups, explicitly comparative.

General Psychology

Uncover/understand universal human CPU. Isolate from context. People from different cultures have same CPU. Studying different cultures is not needed. Cross-cultural sampling just adds noise.

Cultural Psychology

Understand mutual influence of culture  mind. Mind can’t be separated from context. Studying different cultures is critically important.

WEIRD

Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic; used to describe the typical samples in psychology research.

Cultural Safety

Evaluate one’s own power and perspective and the impact this may have on the client; respecting the cultural system of the client beyond one’s own.

Cultural Humility

Be aware of one’s own deficits in knowledge; focus on the other, not self.

Cultural Responsiveness

Recursive, ongoing process; collaborative, social justice focus.

APS Code of Ethics

Psychologists demonstrate their respect for people by acknowledging their legal rights and moral rights, their dignity and right to participate in decisions affecting their lives.

Context for written assessments

A local government council is interested in funding a project to tackle cultural diversity issues in the community and are inviting students to submit a research pitch