PSY3CCG - Lecture 1: Introduction and Road Map

Vocabulary and key concepts from the introductory lecture of PSY3CCG, focusing on definitions of culture, research frameworks, and assessment structures.

Culture (Matsumoto, 2007)

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, transmit social behavior, and derive meaning from life.

Culture (Heine, 2020)

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 a shared context.

Cultural Psychology

A field focusing on the interplay between psychological processes and socially constructed meaning, positing that the mind cannot be separated from its cultural context.

Cross-cultural Psychology

A field that explicitly compares similarities and differences across cultural and ethnic groups.

General Psychology (CPU Metaphor)

A perspective that seeks to uncover universal human mental processes by isolating them from context to reduce noise from cultural variation.

WEIRD

An acronym describing the typical research sample in psychology: Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, and Democratic.

Accessibility Universal

A cognitively available process used for the same function and at the same accessibility level across all cultures.

Functional Universal

A cognitively available process used for the same function across cultures but with variation in accessibility.

Existential Universal

A cognitively available process that is used for different functions or varies in accessibility across different cultures.

Non-universal

A psychological process that is a cultural invention and not cognitively available in all cultures.

Independent Self-concept

A view of the self where identity is based on inner attributes, is bounded, and remains separate from relationships.

Interdependent Self-concept

A view of the self where identity is connected to relationships, is permeable, and changes according to the situation.

Cultural Safety

Evaluating one's own power and perspective to understand its impact on a client, while respecting the client's cultural system beyond one's own.

Cultural Humility

A practice characterized by awareness of one's own knowledge deficits and a primary focus on the experiences of the other person.

Cultural Responsiveness

A recursive, ongoing, and collaborative process in psychological practice with a focus on social justice and effective cross-cultural communication.

AIAS Level 3

A policy level allowing AI collaboration, used for Assessment 1 and Assessment 2 in PSY3CCG.

AIAS Level 1

A policy level indicating no AI usage is allowed, applied to the Online Supervised Exam.

CALD

An acronym for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse individuals, used in the context of Victorian mental health system reports.

Skewed Sampling

The trend in top psychology journals between 2003-2007 where $68\%$ of participants were from the USA and $96\%$ were from Western industrialized countries.

Research Pitch (A1)

A strict 300-word assignment worth $10\%$ of the mark, requiring alignment between a funding body/supervisor, a community partner, and a focused cultural topic.