Psychology exam sociocultural

SAQ keywords and studies

Cultural dimensions

How the values of a society affect behavior and the trends ov behavior in a culture

Individualism vs collectivism

the degree to which people are integrated into groups

Enculturation

learning and maintenance of the behaviours and norms of our culture

Social cognitive theory

assumes that humans learn behaviour through observational learning

attention, retention, motivation, potential

Acculturation

adapting and adjusting to a new culture

assimilation, integration, separation, marginalisation

Acculturative stress

a battle between enculturation and acculturation causing stress and tension

the struggle and stress that comes with the challenges of adjusting to a new culture

Social categorisation

categorising people into groups depending on their group memberships and similar characteristics

Social identity theory

how people develop a sense of identity based on groups they belong to and how this identity affects their behaviour

social comparison

comparing ingroups to outgroups often helping us boost self esteem

in group favoritism

when one is more favorable to there ingroups than their outgroups

vicarious reinforcement

learning for a behavior through positive or negative consequences

self-efficacy

ones belief in ones ability to successfully accomplish a task

Stereotype

a social perception of an individual in terms of group membership or physical attributes

illusory correlation

people see a relationship between 2 variables even when there is none

the grain of truth hypothesis

an experience with an individual group that causes it to be generalised to a group

Study on social identity theory

Hilliard and Liben (2010)
Aim: to see how social category salience may play a role in stereotype formation and intergroup behavior in elementary school children

Study on social cognitive theory

Joy, Kimball, Zabrack (1986)
Aim: to see the impact of TV on childrens aggressive behavior by carrying out a longitudinal natural experiment in Notel, British Columbia, Canada.

Study on formation of stereotypes

Hilliard and Liben (stereotypes)(2010)

Aim: to see how social category salience may play a role in stereotype formation and intergroup behavior in elementary school children

Study on effects of stereotypes

Steele and Aronson (1995)

Aim: to see how stereotype threat can affect test performance of African American 114 students standford university

Study on potential influence of culture on one behaviour or cognition

Kulkofsky et al (2011)

Aim: to see how culture can affect flashbulb memory

Study on the role of cultural dimension on behavior

Kulkofsky et al (2011) (dimensions)

Aim: to see how culture can affect flashbulb memory

274middle class adults from china germany turkey uk usa

study on enculturation

Hilliard and Liben (2010) (enculturation)

Aim: to see how social category salience may play a role in stereotype formation and intergroup behavior in elementary school children

57 US children 3-5 years old

Acculturation

Lueck and Wilson (2010)

aim: to investigate variables that may predict acculturative stress in a sample of asian imigrants and asian americans

2095 asian americans

1271 first generation