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PSYC14 1st Midterm
Fall 2016 UTSC 3rd Ed Textbook
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Culture? | cultivated behaviour, learned and accumulated experience socially transmitted. way of life for group of people symbolic communication (incl. group skills, attitudes, values and knowledge) |
| Common features in cultures? | culture influenced by habitat and environmental pressures culture consists of shared elements culture can be transmitted to others |
| lagging emulation | when people move up in status and begin to engage in culture in what they expect is the status they've moved to despite not particularly being raised in it (ex. worrying less about shelter and food and partaking in more leisure and luxury activities) |
| Verticle Transmission | transmission from parents to children, one gen to the next |
| horizontal transmission | peer to peer, within same gen |
| oblique transmission | accross generations (involv institutes like schools) |
| enculturation | process of transmitting cultural elements to others within one's community (serves as continuity) |
| Acculturation | form of transmission that takes place outside of one's cultural group (serves discontinuity) |
| parents of cultural psych? | Hazel and Kotayama (1991) |
| challenges in studying culture? | no widely agreed upon def for culture among researchers, boundaries of cultures aren't clear, it varies over time, there's a lot of individual variation within the same culture, limited access to many cultures , how to standardize diff langs? |
| universal psychology | things seen everywhere |
| culturally variable psychology | I really shoudn't have to explain i XD |
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