Cultural Psychology Introduction Lecture Notes

These flashcards are designed to help reinforce key vocabulary and concepts from the Cultural Psychology lecture, including definitions and essential theories.

Cultural Psychology

The study of how culture influences psychological processes.

Culture

All of the knowledge, beliefs, values, attitudes, and behavioral scripts acquired from others via social learning.

WEIRD

An acronym that refers to populations that are Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic.

Methodological equivalence

The idea that participants from different cultures understand questions or situations in the same way.

Situation sampling

A two-step method where participants from different cultures generate situations to study cultural psychological phenomena.

Cultural priming

Making certain cultural ideas more accessible to participants to study their effects.

Replication

Repeating a study to verify the same general pattern of results.

Response bias

Factors that distort the accuracy of responses to survey questions.

The Culture of Honor

The phenomenon in which individuals from certain cultures, specifically in the Southern United States, feel compelled to maintain their honor through aggression and reputation.

Ecological factors

Environmental conditions that impact the psychological aspects of individuals within a culture.

Back-translation

A translation method where documents are translated back to the original language to check for accuracy and discrepancies.