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05/03/2011

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Term

Sussman and Rosenfeld

 

conversational distances

Definition
Venezualans prefer closer conversational distances and Japanese prefer wider conversational distances (compared to Americans)
Term
Clifford Geertz
Definition
we all begin with natural equipment with thousands of possibilities but only end of with on reality (paraphrased)
Term

Werker and Tees

 

Language accquisition sensitivity period

Definition

4 day old infants already began to show preferences for the rhythm of sounds within their own language.

 

english babies could initially distinguish between Hindi phonemes, but by 10-12 months cannot distibguish

Term

Mayberry

 

deaf children

Definition
Deaf children who learn sign language in late childhood do not learn as well as children who learn it as a second language or learn it earleir
Term
Shibboleths
Definition
words that are specific to a language that people who speak another language have a hard time pronouncing.
Term

Kim, Relkin and Lee

 

bilinguals and their brains

Definition
for those who learned second language later in life, a seperate part of the brain is activated when they speak one language, and another part for the other.  For those who learned early in life showed activation in same part regardless of language.
Term
Genie
Definition
lived in isolation for beginning of life and is not able to develop mature grammar or syntax
Term

Yasuko and Minoura

 

looked for culture acquisition in Japanese immigarnts to America (children)

Definition
Children who moved to America before age nine became very "Americanized" whereas children who moved between 9 and 15 showed both american and japanese tendencies and perceptions.  Tjose who moved past age 15 were never able to fully embrace american culture.
Term

Ji studies

 

cultural differences in expectations for the future.

Definition

With age, people from different cultures diverge in the pyschological experiences.

 

Children, ages 7, 9, and 11, (Chinese and Canadian).  Chinese showed more tendency to expect a reversal of trends than Canadian children with the gap growing larger starting at age 9.

Term
Cultural differences in sleeping arragements
Definition
IN majority of cultures, infants sleep in same room, if not same bed as mother.
Term

Schweder et. al

 

sleeping arrangements in Chicago, IL and Orissa, India

Definition

Americans: f and m

two daughters

three sons

(88% of time, Indians 47% of time)

 

Indians: 

3d, m and f

14d and 8s

15s and 11 s

 

or

 

f and 8s

15s and 11s

3d, 14d and m

 

47% of time, Americans 0% of time.

Term
Incest avoidance
Definition

post-pubescent members of the family (of opposite sex) should not share a room.

 

(American and Indian)

Term
Protection od the vulnerable
Definition

young children who are needy and vulnerable should not be left alone at night

 

(Indian)

Term
Female chastity anxiety
Definition

unmarried, post-pubescent girls should always have a chaperone to protect them form engaging in sexual activity that would be shameful

 

(indian)

Term
Respect for hierarchy
Definition

post-pubescent boys have higher status and should not have to share a room with younger siblings and parents

 

(indian)

Term
Sacred couple
Definition

married couples should be given their own space for emotional intimacy and sexual privacy

 

(american)

Term
Autonomy ideal
Definition

young children should learn to be self reliant and be ableto take care of themselves

 

(american)

Term

Agiobu-Kemmer

scottish and nigerian children

Definition
Scottish children spend more time with physical objects than they do with people.  This is opposite for Nigerian children
Term

Wang study

 

Euor-Am and Chinese children interviewed for childhood memories

Definition
Americans children more likely to describe themselves with individualistic statements
Term

Haight, Wnag, leichtman and Davies

 

parental role

Definition
North American parents are more likely to acknowledge childrens feelings in order to gain compliance.  Chinese mothers are more likely to lead and children will follow
Term

Miiller, Wiley, Fung and Liang

 

acknowledgement of success

 

 

Definition
North American mothers are more likely to discuss children's successes and strengths, whereas Chinese mothers are more likely to call attention to mistakes
Term
Attachment theory
Definition

infants and parents are biologically prepared to establish attachments with each other.

 

attachment style displayed between infant and mother can affect romantic relationships the child will have later on

Term
Secure attachment
Definition
infants who occasionally seek their mother's presence when she is around and intensify their desire to be close to her afetr being left along in unfamiliar circumstances.  They are curious and explore when mother is around
Term
Avoidant attachment
Definition
infants show little distress when mother is absent and avoid her on her return.
Term
Anxious-ambivilant attachment
Definition
show frequent distress when mother is either present or absent. will sometimes want to be enar near her but will often resist and push away.
Term

grossman (X2), Spangler, Suess and Unzner

 

German attachment

Definition
Most common style was avoidant and was seen as ideal since it cultivated early independence
Term

Sagi, et al

 

attachment style amongst Israeli kibbutz

Definition
most common style: anxious-ambivilant due to communal day care
Term
Noun bias
Definition
children's first words tend to be nouns
Term
Noun bias across cultures
Definition

Chinese: more verbs than nouns

Korean:no noun bias

American" nouns

Term
Terrible twos
Definition
Only really apparent in North American culture
Term

Schlegel and Barry

 

ethnographic study on adolescent experience in 175 countries

Definition

Only 44% expected anti-social behavior

definitely a western idea

Term

Trommsdorff

 

adolescents and their difficulties

Definition

Germany, Scotland, Bali, Japan and Batak.

 

INdividualism and modernity influence the diffculties of adolescents.

 

Also increases tension between parents and offspring

Term

H.H. Goddard

 

Immigrant screening

Definition

tested for "inferior minds"

 

Majority were classified as "morons"

Term

Stevenson

 

Children in Peru

Definition

parents of children who attended school generally had recieved more education themselves and were more likely to be literate and more likely to own cogitive stimulating thinsg like books and toys.

 

schooling led to improved contextual memory, psatial memory, serial memory and visual and sequential analysis.  led children to process info quicker

Term

Stevenson and Stigler

 

compared students who grew up in East Asia and those who grew up in US math performance

Definition
East Asian school performed much better.
Term

Stevenson and Stigler

 

parental role in education

Definition
American mothers more likely to invest in childrens education, as do Japanese parents, though Jap. parents do not begin investing until kindergarten
Term

Stevenson

 

wizard grants wish

Definition

70% of chinese childrens wishes involved education

Not so with Americans

Term
Proximal causes
Definition
those that have direct and immediate relations with their effects
Term
Distal causes
Definition
those initial differences lead to effects over long periods of time, and often through indirect relations
Term
Evoked culture
Definition

all people have certain biologically encoded behaviorsal repertiores that are potentially accessible to them and they are engaged when appropriate situational contexts are present.

 

ex. importance of physical attractiveness in choosing a mate

 

 

 

Term

Gangestad, Haselton and Buss

 

parasite influence on mate attractivness

Definition
The more parasites that are prevalent in a culture, the more important it is to choose an attractive mate 
Term
Transmitted culture
Definition
People come to elarn about particular cultural practices through social learning or by modeling others who live near them.
Term

Robert Edgerton

 

ecological variation amongst African tribes

Definition

Sebei, pokot, Kamba and Hehe.

 

Each tribe had members who lived in various ecological communities.  Members tended to act more similarly to their own tribe members, rather than similar to members of a similar ecological area.

Term
Natural Selection
Definition

evolutionary process that occurs when:

 

a. there is individual variability among members of a species on a certain traits

b. those traits are associated with different survival rates

c. those traits have a heredity basis

Term
Sexual Selection
Definition

the fecundity of the sexiest :)

 

those individuals that are best able to attract a mate will be the most likely to have surviving offspring

Term

Ideas as replicators

 

longevity

Definition
replicatators should be relatively stable and long-lasting entities and shouldn't dissolve or fall apart readily, otehrwise their their is nothing to replicate
Term

Ideas as replicators

 

fideltiy

Definition
replicators should be able to replicate as accurately as possible
Term
Memes
Definition

smallest units of cultural information that can be faithfully transmitted.

 

Ex: tunes, catch-phrases, theories, manners, etc

 

instructions for particular ways of behaving or speaking.

 

do not have to be adaptive (many memes are maladaptive)

Term
Fidelity and memes?
Definition
cultural transmission does not appear to have a very high fidelity
Term

Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman

 

power of cultural evolution

Definition
ideas can spread even if as many as 50% of those who follow the dieas lose their lives from doing so.
Term

Epidemiology of Ideas

 

Dan Sperber

Definition

considers the distribution of ideas in a particular population and explores the features of ideas that faciliate or inhibit the likelihood than an idea will be passed on.

 

ideas do not spread directly, rather :

1. an inventor has an idea.

2. another individual learns the diea form the first person and creates their own mental representation

 

 

The gist of the idea is transmitted, but not the FULL idea itself

Term

Schaller, Conway and Tanchuk

 

stereotypes

Definition

stereotypes vary vastly across time.

 

negative stereotypes tend to be motivated by particular instances and circumstances such as conflict over resources

 

ex) stereotype against irish

Term
 Acculturation
Definition
process bu which people mitgrate to and learn culture that is different from their original (or heritage) culture.
Term
Sojourners
Definition
those who intend to stay temporarily
Term
Culture shock
Definition
the feeling of being anxious, helpless, irritable and, in general, homesick that one experiences on moving to a new culture
Term
Cultural distance
Definition

the difference between two cultures in their overall ways of life.

 

TOEFL: east asians have harder time learning english becasue the languages are so different

Term
Cultural fit
Definition
the degree to which an individual's personality is more similiar to the dominant cultural values in the host culture.
Term
Need for cognitive closure
Definition
desire to have a definite answer to a question.
Term
Blending
Definition
the tendecy for bicultural people to evince psychological tendencies in between those of their two cultures
Term
Frame-switching
Definition
the tendency for bicultural people to switch between cultural selves
Term
Stereotype threat
Definition
the fear that one might do something that will inadvertently confirm a negative stereotype about one's group.
Term
Dynamic social impact theory
Definition

individuals come to influence each other, and they do so primarily in terms of how oftem the individuals interact.

 

interactions lead to consolidation and clustering of like-minded people

Term
Contemporary legends
Definition
fictional stories that that are told in modern societies as though they are are true.
Term
Subjective well-being
Definition
the feeling of how satisfied one if with their life
Term
Autokinetic effect
Definition
is caused by the involuntary saccadic movements of our eyes which, in the dark, create the illusion of movement.
Term
Pluralistic ignorance
Definition
the tendency for people to collectively misinterpret the thoughts that underlie other people's behaviors.
Term

Schaller et al

 

steroetype communicability

Definition

Stereptypes are influenced by ideas that people can easily communicate.

 

Participants asked what OTHER people think about ethnicities.  For major ethnic groups, people used terms for the stereotypes that were easy to communicate.  For less common ethnic groups communicability had mno role since people didn't talk about them.

Term

Heath et al

 

disgusting rat study

Definition
rumors and legends are more likely to spread when they evoke a shared emotional response amongst people.  The stronger the emotion, the stronger the connection.  The more emotion that is elicited, the more likely they are to pass the story on, particulary if they find it to be plausible.
Term

Atran and Norenzayan

 

Minimally counterintuitive ideas

Definition
gave PS sets of statements that varied in intuitiveness.  some were intuitive, some minimally counterintuitive, some max. counterintuitive.  Imm. after learning, participants were better able to rememebr the intuitive statements.  A week later, they were better able to recall the the intuitive statements but also contained a few minimally counterintuitive ideas. (they were more memorable)
Term

Norenzayan, Atran, Faulkner and Schaller

 

counterintuitive folk stories

Definition
based popularity on google hits.  Most successful stories had two-three counterintuitive statements.
Term
Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
Definition

Americans today are less liekly to participate in formal groups than they did in the past.  

 

Ex) bowling used to be the most popular sport

 

Culprits? Electronic technology, the stress of a two-income household, and suburbanization

Term

Hamamura

 

Individualism in Japan

Definition
Individualism has been increasing in Japan at the same rate as it is increasing in the US, but they are still far more collectivistic.
Term

Flynn studies

 

IQ

Definition

IQ has been increasing over the past few decades among several countries. (Though SAT scores are going down).

 

Reasons?  

Better nutrition, hence better brain growth.

The world is becoming more complex and people need more info to navigate successfully

Education is necessary for a good job

Term

Johnson

 

Pop culture increases IQ

Definition
Pop culture is becoming incresingly more complex and challenging.TV programs typically have intense, complex plots.  Video games are more complex.
Term

Rice and Steele

 

subjective well-being

Definition
there is a strong corr. between american ethnic groups SWB scores and the SWB scores of there respetive origin countries.
Term
Japanese Baseball
Definition
Japanese baseball involves more plays in which players make sacrifices for the benefit of the team.  Team members work together to save other members from losing face.
Term

Jacobs and Campbell

 

autokinetic effect

Definition

people were tested in a group with mostly confederates and asked how far a light moved.  The confederates over estimations influenced the bling participants ideas.  Gradually, as the study progress, the confederates were replaced with blind participants and it took about 11 generations for the estimation to reflect the actual movement od the light.

 

Moral of the story?

 

Cultural ideas carry.

Term

Hannah Arendt

 

pluralism and Nazism

Definition
cooperation with Nazis probably came form mass conformity rather than evil motives.
Term

Lysgaard Study

 

adjustment phases of Norwegian Fulbright scholars to the US

Definition

Showed a U shaped curve of enjoyment.

 

 

Term

Hsaio-Ying

 

acculturation curve of immigrants to Japan

Definition
tracked immigrants to Japan and found a sad L shaped curve rather than a U shaped curve, implying that it either takes much longer for immigrants to adjust to japanese culture or that they simply DON'T adjust
Term
Honeymoon stage
Definition

keeps the tourism business going.

 

for the first few months, many immigrants have a positive experience 

Term
Crisis Stage
Definition
between 6-8 months immigrants have the most negative perceptions and experiences.  They become homesick and lose the thrill of being in an exotic land.
Term
Adjustement stage
Definition
begins when people start to feel more proficient in their culture.  extends over a numebr of years.
Term

Ward and Kennedy

 

malaysian students in Singapore and New Zealand

Definition

After 3 years in their countries, malaysians in singapore reported feeling more at ease and fewer difficulties than those who were in New Zealand.

 

this is becasue singapore's culture is more similar to Malaysian culture.

Term
Cultural fit
Definition
the degree to which an individual's personality is more similar to the dominant cultural values of the host culture.
Term

Searle and Ward

 

Extraversion in acculturation

Definition
Malaysians and Singaporeans who scored high in extraversion acculturated better to New Zealand culture.  Meanwhile, emglish speakers who scored high in extraversion who lived in Singapore felt more lonely, bored, depressed, etc.
Term

Cross study

 

corr. study of cultural acculturation and emasures of independence vs. interdependence

Definition

the more interdependent east asians were, the more stress they felt.  no corr. in americans between ind. or interdep. and stress and coping.

 

aka, independence is not always associated with direct coping.

Term

John Berryman

 

issues of acculturation

Definition

1. wheterh people attempt to participate in the larger society of their host culture

 

2. whetehr people strive to maintain their own heritage and cultural identity

Term
Integration strategy
Definition

attempts to fit in and fully participate in the host culture while also striving to maintain the traditions of their own culture

 

best strategy

Term
marginalization strategy
Definition
when people have negative views towards both their heritage AND their host cultures
Term
Assimilation strategy
Definition
attempt to fit in and fully participate in the host culture while making little to no effort to maintain traditions of heritage culture.
Term
Separation strategy
Definition
efforts to maintain the traditions of heritage country while making little or no effort to participate in their host culture.
Term

Kosic et al

 

Croation immigrants to Italy.  NCC

Definition

for PS who scored low in NCC, their early interactions did not affect their adaptation to Italian life.

 

for PS who scored high in NCC, their early interactions greatly affected their adaptation strategies.  those who socialized with italians initially adapted well to Italian life.  those who socialized more with croations had a harder time adjusting.

Term

Goel, McCarthy, Phillips and Wee

 

obesity rates of immigrants

Definition

those in US less than year: 8% obese

those in US 15 years : 19%

 

Term

Marmot and Syme

 

obesity amongst Japanese in US

Definition
japanese to emmigrate to US are more likely to have coronary heart disease (evident among those to acculturated to American lifestyle)
Term

Zhou and Bankston

 

adaptation to New orleans culture amongst Vietnamese

Definition
the more upwardly mobile they are, the better they achieve in school and the LESS integrated they are.
Term

Suarez-Orozco

 

latino immigrants and adaptation

Definition
the more Latino immigrants acculturated to the mainstream culture, the less seriously they took their studies and the worse they performed in school.
Term

Heine and Lehman

 

self esteem scores

 

 

Definition
Japanese self esteem scores where higher after they had been in Canada for 7 months, whereas Canadian english teachers who moved to japan had a decrease in self esteem.
Term

Heine and Lehman

 

more self esteem

Definition
it took three generations of Asian immigarnts before reported self esteem scores were equal to American citizens.
Term

bargh, Chen and Burrows

 

students exposed to themed words

Definition
students exposed to elderly themed words walked slower after the study
Term

Hong et al

 

westernized Chinese students in Hong Kong

Definition
students primed with american cues used internalized attributes for fish, whereas students eposed to chinese cues provided group reference explanations.
Term

Ross, Xun and Wilson

 

chinese immigrants to Canada and questionaries

 

language activates cultural frame

Definition
Half of PS where asked to fill out survey in Chinese and half were asked to fill out in English.  Those who filled out survey in Chinese listed equal positive and negative statements.  those who filled it out in English listed 3X more positive statements than negative ones.
Term

Gardner, Gabriel and Dean

 

bicultural and monocultural PS were primed with eiother independent or interdependent cues

(singular vs plural pronouns)

Definition
those primed with ind. cues rated individualistic values as more important and collectivistic values as less important.  There were significant effects across conditions, however, biculturals (asian americans in this case) showed stronger evidence for frame shifting
Term

Claude and Steele

 

African Americans and drop out rates

Definition
on average, African Americans drop out at higher rates at all levels of schooling.
Term

Steele and Aronson

 

Stanford students taking GRE w/ and w/out  race identification

Definition

in condition where students must identify their race, african americans eprformed significantly worse than they did in the no race condition. (stereotype threat)

 

similar findings about female performance on math tests.

Term

Qi Wang studiy 1

 

college students earliest memories, American and Chinese

Definition

American: higher memory volume and specificity, earlier age, higher autonomous orientation

 

Chinese: higher self-other orientation

Term

Qi Wang study 2

 

american and chinese mothers with their 3 yr olds.

Definition

American mother: more narrative volume, mroe elaborations on narratives, more autonomous talk

 

Chinese mother: more diactic talk

 

earliest memories are influenced by child-mother interactions

Term

Fernald and Marikawa

 

maternal speech, AMerican and Japanese mothers

Definition

american mothers were more likely to label toys with nouns. 

 

Japanese mothers more likely to engage child with the toy via social routines

Term
Pronoun dropping
Definition

Ex) Asian language

 

can say just the verb if the pronoun is obvious

Term

Tardif

 

utterance coding of toddlers

Definition

Enlish toddlers: more nouns

Italien toddlers: more nouns

Mandarin toddler: more verbs

Term

Hall and colleagues

 

naturalistic observations of routine medical visits

Definition

observed male and female physicians

 

female physicians displayed more verbal and nonverbal communication despite gener od patient. (though gender differences are larger when women are talking to women)

Term

Kashima et al

 

three dimensions of slef

 

relational selves

collective selves

individualistic selves

Definition

Women rated higher in relational selves.

Asutralians & US rated higher in agency

Japan and korea arted high in collectivism

Western cultures rated high in assertiveness

Term

Cozzarelli et al

 

beliefs in protestant work ethic and attributions to poverty

Definition

the more you believe in PWE, the more likely you are to blaim people in poverty

 

no corr. between PWE and extrenal attribution.

Term

Kusserow's ethnography

 

comparison of worling class and upper class preschools and interviews b/w parents and preschool teachers

Definition

working class: slef-reliance, toughness and self-defense are valued.  loud and strict discipline.  goal to protect and toughen children

 

upper-middle class: self-confidence, autnonomy and uniqueness emphasized.  disciplin through suggestion and explanation.  goal to cultivate and actualize child's unique potentials.

 

soft vs. hard individualism

Term
differnces between biological and cultural evolution
Definition

fidelity is not as important and less accurate in cultural evolution

memes have higher potential for faster duplication (fecundity)

sources of change are diferent (bio-random nutations, culture-innovations)

 

Term
Ecologies and their influence on sex roles
Definition

truk: deep sea lagoons, more hazardous geographically.  Truk men more masculine.

 

Tahiti: shallow laggons, safer geographically, androgenous male roles

Term
Dan Gilmore's "Theory of Manhood"
Definition
culture with a harsh environment and scarce resoucres tend to stress the masculinity
Term

Prentice and Miller

 

college students attitudes towards alcohol

 

princeton graduates

Definition

rated own comfort level with alcohol and perceived comfort level for other students.

 

self rating was much lower than percieved rating for average students

 

cultural pluralism

Term

Babiker et al

 

corr. study of international students at Edinburgh university

 

measure of adjustment and climate distance index score

Definition

sig. corr. b/w anxiety / # of medical aapointments with CDI score

 

higher cultural distance score, more anxiety and medical visits.

Term
Existentialist theory of race
Definition

view that race reflects deep-seated, inalterable essence and is indicative of traits and abilities

 

leads immmigarnts to NT identify witrh american culture

Term
scoial constructionist theory of race
Definition

view that race is socially constructed, malleable and arbitrary.

 

leads immigrants to identify with american culture

Term

No et al

 

asian american students, manipulation of lay theory of race

Definition
those who believed SCT identified with american culture more than those who hold ET
Term

Ryder et al

 

chinese canadians undergrads

 

acculturation strategies and depression

Definition
the betetr your attitudes towards mainstream culture felt less depression and vice versa
Term
melting pot
Definition
society tries to estimate the immigrant group into their own group
Term
Multiculturalism
Definition
the society is open to cultural diversity and accepts the right of all groups to live as culturally different people.
Term

Plaut et al

 

corr b/w white's attitudes and pimoritites psychological engagement

Definition
the more the whites are colorbling, the less psychological engagement.  the more white multiculturalism, the more minority pyschological engagment.
Term
Compatitble bcultural identity
Definition
biculturals who integrate the mainstream and ethnic cultures in everyday lives switch their behavior depending on the cultural context
Term
Oppositional bicultural identity
Definition
biculturals who percieve two cultural identities to be distinct and oppositionalo and report that it is hard to be both at the same time.
Term
globalization
Definition
increased movement of people, knowledge, ideas, goods and money across nations that has lead to increased interconnectedness among the world's populations: economically, politically, socially and culturally
Term
Modernization
Definition
process in which spciety goes through industrialization and other social changes
Term
homogenization
Definition

convergence toward a common set of cultural traits and practices

 

often viewed as "westernization"

Term

Ma and Schoenman

 

americans and kenyans

 

compared pastoral nomands, employees in hotels, university, etc, kenyan college students, and american college students

 

20 statement task

Definition
kenyan students slightly less likely to make psychological attributions than american students.  employees were more likely to list social roles and pastoral nomads were most liekly to list socail roles.
Term
material beliefs
Definition

beliefs about the material world, particulary about the economy.

 

modernizationchanges material beliefs

Term
Cosmological beliefs
Definition

beliefs aboutthe purpose and meaning of life and relationships with otehrs.

 

relatively resistant to the influence of globalization.

Term

Inglehart and Baker

 

long, study across 65 nations

Definition

economic development shifts cultures towards secular attitude and self expression

both cultures endured affects of subsequent development

industrializing societies are NOT becoming liek the US

Term
Glocalization
Definition

globalization + localization

 

adaptation of global norms or practices to local tradition

Term

Kjeldgaard and Askegaard

 

youth consumption motivation inDenmark and Greenland

Definition

youth in denmark strive for uniqueness and exppression of a perceived indiv. authenticity is carried out through consumptions

 

youth in Greenland: similarity of consumptions patterns reinforces the belonging to the local community

Term

Cheong

 

Korea

Definition
an expression of affective and attached relationships b/w people closely related to one another.  It requires sharing of affection and attachment w/ memebrs through face to face interacction
Term

Kyongwon Yoon

 

ethnographies of cell ohone use in south korea

Definition

students use cells to reinforce and build up relationships based in face to face interaction. (otherwise it is "fake")

 

parents use themto extend parenting beyond the home and express family belonging and attachment

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