Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology
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Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology
Anne Solomon
Diversity and Cultural Factors in Psychology/PSY450
Professor Iman Turner
July 3, 2011
Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology Cross-cultural psychology is the critical and comparative study of the effects on human psychology. Cross-cultural psychology draws its conclusions from at least two samples that represent at least two cultural groups. Because cross-cultural psychology is about comparisons, it is crucial to use critical thinking. Cross-cultural psychology studies cross-cultural interactions, differences, and their psychological sameness as well. Cross-cultural psychology is an interdisciplinary field in anthropology and psychology. Cross-cultural psychology investigates an individual life through a profound perceptive of the appropriate cultural perspective with one’s history and the cultural vitals that deep-rooted within that models a person’s cognition, feeling, inspiration, behavior, and psychopathologies in cross-culturally contradictory habits. Cross-cultural psychology is different from general psychology in that general psychology is the applied and academic field that studies human behavior. Research in psychology seeks to understand and explain human thought, behavior, and emotion. Psychology is a blend of philosophy and biology; whereas cross-cultural psychology defines certain behaviors as it pertains to one's culture. Cross-cultural psychology evades the presentation of culture as a phony self-determining unpredictable whereas general psychology and its sub-discipline, excess culture as surroundings noise filtered out in order to pinpoint universal psychological mechanisms. Furthermore, common psychology and cross-cultural psychology are infamous in the midst of social sciences for marginalizing culture in this manner. Cultural psychology supports the view that culture and mind are constitutive parts of each other and that humans are
Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology
Anne Solomon
Diversity and Cultural Factors in Psychology/PSY450
Professor Iman Turner
July 3, 2011
Introduction to Cross-Cultural Psychology Cross-cultural psychology is the critical and comparative study of the effects on human psychology. Cross-cultural psychology draws its conclusions from at least two samples that represent at least two cultural groups. Because cross-cultural psychology is about comparisons, it is crucial to use critical thinking. Cross-cultural psychology studies cross-cultural interactions, differences, and their psychological sameness as well. Cross-cultural psychology is an interdisciplinary field in anthropology and psychology. Cross-cultural psychology investigates an individual life through a profound perceptive of the appropriate cultural perspective with one’s history and the cultural vitals that deep-rooted within that models a person’s cognition, feeling, inspiration, behavior, and psychopathologies in cross-culturally contradictory habits. Cross-cultural psychology is different from general psychology in that general psychology is the applied and academic field that studies human behavior. Research in psychology seeks to understand and explain human thought, behavior, and emotion. Psychology is a blend of philosophy and biology; whereas cross-cultural psychology defines certain behaviors as it pertains to one's culture. Cross-cultural psychology evades the presentation of culture as a phony self-determining unpredictable whereas general psychology and its sub-discipline, excess culture as surroundings noise filtered out in order to pinpoint universal psychological mechanisms. Furthermore, common psychology and cross-cultural psychology are infamous in the midst of social sciences for marginalizing culture in this manner. Cultural psychology supports the view that culture and mind are constitutive parts of each other and that humans are
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