cultural chapter 2 quiz

psychic unity

• an assumption central to cross cultural psychology search for cultural universities

• human diversity is not deep

• differences in psychological functioning and social B across cultures are limited by certain universal psychological capacities

relativism vs universalism spectrum

• relativism extreme: psychological phenomena understood from studying meaning of cultures systems, negating generalisation/comparison

• universalism extreme: cultural factors do not influence certain psychological phenomena (ex: instrict responses)

cultural equivalence

state/condition of similarity in conceptual meaning and empirical method between cultures that also allows comparison to be meaningful. 

back translation

translating between languages to see if their meaning lines up equally

cc replication rx

rx method explores psychological universals, studies aspiring cultural equivalence

• an og study is replicated in diff cultural setting

• nick: transport and test

meta analysis

review of findings from a large # of investigations into a similar rx question

cultural differences

B/experiences that manifest themselves differently in diff cultures

rx dissemination

rx share findings through prsentations, conferences online platforms, and scholarly journals

4 mx scale

1. nominal: categorization

2. ordinal: rank

3. interval: positive or negative

4. ratio: true amount of a variable

2 major rx strategies

• application orientation strategy: applicicability of rx from country country

• comparitivist: sim/diff certain statistical mx across cultures

direct vs indirect surveys

• direct: face to face, direct communication

• indirectL no direct communication, questions written and handed out

focus group methodology def

allows rx to explore topics that may be sensitive or difficult to address through trad survey methods

meta analysis def

statistical method allowing cross cultural psychologists to do quantitative analysis of large collection of scientific result and integrate the findings

holistic methods (scientific)

• combine mulitple rx approaches

• study individuals/cultures as interconnected systems

• integrate quanittiative and qualitative

• analyze on different levels

holistic (non scientific)

• interconnected elements

• combination of qunaittative and qualitative

4 goals of cc rx

Describe, explain, predict, control

what is a sample error

sample is different from the population it represents

smaller sample=greater sampling error and greater result of chance factors

larger sample=smaller sampling error

central tendency

• mean: average

• median": middle number

• mode: number highest frequence