PSYC18H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cultural Psychology, Essentialism, Herding
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Kroeber + kluckhorn - patterns of historically derived and selected ideas and their embodiment in institutions, practices, and artifacts. First, culture emerges in adaptive interactions between humans and environments. Third, culture is transmitted across time periods and generations. Schweder - meanings, conceptions, and interpretive schemes that are activated, constructed, or brought on-line" through participation in normative social institutions and practices, giving shape to the psychological processes in individuals in a society. Types: nationality, region, race/ethnicity, gender, class, age, religion, generation. Revealing cultural difference can be necessary correction for mainstream psychology research"s overwhelming dependence on white educated us participants. Cultural psychology has been criticized as encouraging stereotyped and essentialist thinking about group difference. N = 34 students in a cultural psychology course (38% white, 42% east asian, 20% other) and n = 20 students unrelated courses. Cultural awareness: acknowledging cultural differences in interpreting an ambiguous situation between two people who may have had a misunderstanding.
