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| Japanese term for the dependence and indulgence that characterize the parent-child relationship |
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| Personality psychology must strive to understand two things: |
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| how people of one culture vary from people from another culture, how individuals within a given culture vary from each other. |
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| The position that cultures have some core similarities |
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| The position that different cultures are fundamentally different from each other |
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| customs, habits, beliefs, and values that shape behavioral, emotional, and life patterns, may include language, way of thinking, and perhaps fundamental view of reality |
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| A child picks up culture when he or she is born. This is called ... |
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| An adult moves to a new country as is influenced by its culture. This is called ... |
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| Identify three reasons to study cross-cultural psychology. |
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| (1)explore generalizability of psychological findings (2)avoid cultural conflict (3)to find out whether the human construal of life varies fundamentally across cultures |
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| Nothing in the world has any meaning other than the meaning constructed for it by the observer. There's no reason to think that different cultures would be comparable at all. |
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| able to create and use symbols |
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| Every person must be understood in his or her own terms. |
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| The universal aspects of a concept ... |
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| The culture-specific aspects of a concept ... |
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| Triandis proposed that cultures vary along three dimensions: |
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| complexity, tightness/looseness, communalism/individualism. These are all "cultural traits." |
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| Whether deviation is tolerated or not ... |
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| "Non-self," the key idea in Buddhism ... |
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| The degree to which people's behavior varies form one situation to the next ... |
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| The degree to which a person's behavior is different from others' across situations ... |
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| Nothing lasts forever ... |
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| anicca. Would he ask this? |
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| A pleasant self-less state of being ... |
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| What is Triandis's model? |
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| ecology->culture->socialization->personality->behavior |
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| What's the ecological approach? |
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| That culture is shaped by the environment in which a people find themselves. |
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| when an observation is colored by the observer's cultural background |
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| "Everyone Chinese is the same." |
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| outgroup homogeneity bias |
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| Identify three issues that arise in cross-cultural psychology. |
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| ethnocentrism, out-group homogeneity bias, cultural relativism |
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| Another dimension by which to characterize culture is ... |
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| horizontal versus vertical. A horizontal culture views everyone as equal, a vertical culture views people as different. |
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