23 Welcome to Cultural Variation in Experience, Behavior, and Personality
This module is introduces cross-cultural psych. Please watch the videos and work your way through the notes. The videos start on the next page. You can find the module playlist here.
23.1 Learning Goals
By the end of this module, you should be able to achieve all the learning goals outlined below.
- Be able to define both cultural and bicultural identity.
- Know the relationship between behavior, personality, and culture.
- Understand how the honor, face, and dignity of particular countries contribute to their cultural makeup. cultural makeup.
- Identify and describe the ways in which culture is studied in psychology.
- Distinguish between characteristics that are found in all cultures (cultural universals, etics) and traits that are unique to certain cultures (cross-cultural specificity, emics).
- Identify the different cultural characteristics and understand their implications in cross-cultural psychology.
- Distinguish between individualist and collectivist cultures.
- Identify and discuss challenges, controversies, and biases psychologists face when studying personality cross-culturally.
- Identify and discuss the implications of cultural relativism.
- Explain the ways in which individuals interact with their culture.
- Identify the importance of and know the difference between studying both within- and between-culture differences.
- Define the ecological approach to cross-cultural psychology and understand its implications on cross-cultural psychology.
23.2 Module Materials
23.2.1 Explore
- Readings
- Located on Canvas
- Chapter 13 from the Personality Puzzle
- Videos
- Located in the subchapters of this module
- Slidedecks
- Located on Canvas
23.2.2 Engage
- Activities
- Located on Canvas
23.2.3 Evaluate
- Quiz
- Located on Canvas