Globalisation

Globalisation: the movement toward a unifying, global culture and set of values based on individualism, free market economics and democracy

Cognition: the process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through our experiences and the senses

Behaviours: observable actions of individuals or groups

Attitudes: an expression of favor or disfavor for a person, object or event often formed through experience and exposure

Principle of consistency: expect the behaviour of a person to be consistent with the attitudes they hold

Culture: the products of socialisation within a society that involves a set of rules, norms and customs that are agreed by the members of that group

Acculturation: the process of coming into contact with another culture and adopting its norms and behaviors.

Enculturation: the process of adopting or internalizing the behaviours of your own culture.

Local culture: culture we grow up with in our immediate environment

Global culture: influences we pick up from contact with other cultures

Bicultural identity: combines both global and local culture

What can bicultural identitiy sometimes cause?: confusion or a sense of marginalisation

Individualism: an ‘I’ orientation, emphasizing self-reliance and personal goals

Delafosse et al - longitudinal interviews: a research method designed to gather self-reported information directly from ppts about their beliefs, opinions and attitudes

Becker et al - natural experiment: an experiment that has a naturally occurring variable in a real-life situation, focusing on the natural IV rather than the settings, extraneous variables can’t be controlled

Ogihara - cross cultural surveys: a research method that aims to gather self-reported data on a certain topic from lots of people