Culture and Psychology

by L. D. Worthy, Trisha Lavigne, & Fernando Romero

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Culture is one of the most powerful forces in the world. It shapes how we make sense of our world, how we express ourselves and how we understand and relate to others. In this textbook we introduce cultural universals and culturally specific constructs in psychology. This textbook was created for an undergraduate course that appeals to psychology majors and non-majors because it meets several general education and transfer credit requirements.

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Publisher
Glendale Community College
Subjects
Social Sciences, Psychology
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it. Non-commercial use only.
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Teens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Licensing
  7. 1: Culture and Psychology
  8. 1.1: Introduction to Psychology
  9. 1.2: Cultural WEIRDos
  10. 1.3: Introduction to Cultural Psychology
  11. 1.4: Defining Culture
  12. 1.5: Two Views of Culture
  13. 1.6: Products of Culture
  14. 1.7: Hofstede's Cultural Dimensions
  15. 1.8: Ethnocentrism and Cultural Relativism
  16. 1.9: Summary
  17. 1.10: Vocabulary
  18. 2: Cultural Learning
  19. 2.1: Animal Culture
  20. 2.2: Uniquely Human
  21. 2.3: Ecological and Geographic Cultural Variation
  22. 2.4: Cultural Transmission
  23. 2.5: Summary
  24. 2.6: Vocabulary
  25. 3: Research Methods and Culture
  26. 3.1: Advantages and Disadvantages
  27. 3.2: Research Issues in Cultural Psychology
  28. 3.3: Sampling Bias
  29. 3.4: Procedural Bias
  30. 3.5: Instrument Bias
  31. 3.6: Interpretation Bias
  32. 3.7: Summary
  33. 3.8: Ethics in Cultural Psychological Research
  34. 3.9: Other Issues in Research
  35. 3.10: Vocabulary
  36. 4: Culture and Development
  37. 4.1: Defining Enculturation
  38. 4.2: Enculturation Agents
  39. 4.3: Temperament
  40. 4.4: Attachment
  41. 4.5: Parenting Styles
  42. 4.6: Cognitive Development
  43. 4.7: Other Enculturation Agents
  44. 4.8: Summary
  45. 4.9: Vocabulary
  46. 5: Culture and Cognition
  47. 5.1: Sensation and Perception
  48. 5.2: Attention
  49. 5.3: Social Cognitions
  50. 5.4: Schema
  51. 5.5: Attributions
  52. 5.6: Memory
  53. 5.7: Thinking and Intelligence
  54. 5.8: Categories and Concepts
  55. 5.9: Intelligence
  56. 5.10: One or Many
  57. 5.11: Intelligence and Culture
  58. 5.12: Intelligence Tests
  59. 5.13: Summary
  60. 5.14: Vocabulary
  61. 6: Culture and Sexuality
  62. 6.1: Sex and Gender
  63. 6.2: Stereotypes and Gender Roles
  64. 6.3: Gender Enculturation Agents
  65. 6.4: Gender Differences
  66. 6.5: Gender Roles and Culture
  67. 6.6: Gender Identity
  68. 6.7: Sexuality and Sexual Orientation
  69. 6.8: Sexuality and Culture
  70. 6.9: Discrimination
  71. 6.10: Reducing Gender Bias and Inequality
  72. 6.11: Summary
  73. 6.12: Vocabulary
  74. 7: Culture and Emotion
  75. 7.1: Components of Emotions
  76. 7.2: Emotions and Culture
  77. 7.3: Motivation
  78. 7.4: Summary
  79. 7.5: Vocabulary
  80. 8: Culture of Self and Personality
  81. 8.1: Introduction to Personality
  82. 8.2: Trait Theory
  83. 8.3: Five Factor Model and Cross-Cultural Research
  84. 8.4: Big Five as Universals
  85. 8.5: Cultural Considerations and Personality
  86. 8.6: Self and Culture
  87. 8.7: Characteristics of the Self-Concept
  88. 8.8: Self and Culture
  89. 8.9: Neural Basis for Self
  90. 8.10: Beyond East and West Differences
  91. 8.11: Self-Enhancement and Self-Effacement
  92. 8.12: Summary
  93. 8.13: Vocabulary
  94. 9: Culture and Physical Health
  95. 9.1: What Does it Mean to be Healthy?
  96. 9.2: Global Definition of Health
  97. 9.3: Life Expectancy
  98. 9.4: Health in American Culture
  99. 9.5: Diet
  100. 9.6: Sleep Hygiene
  101. 9.7: Socioeconomic Status (SES)
  102. 9.8: Race and Ethnicity
  103. 9.9: Global Health Cross-Cultural Comparisons
  104. 9.10: Summary
  105. 9.11: Infant Mortality
  106. 9.12: Subjective Well-Being
  107. 9.13: Vocabulary
  108. 10: Culture and Mental Health
  109. 10.1: What is Mental Illness?
  110. 10.2: Summary
  111. 10.3: Making a Diagnosis (The 3 D’s)
  112. 10.4: History of Mental Illness
  113. 10.5: Culture-Bound Disorders
  114. 10.6: Universal Disorders
  115. 10.7: Major Depressive Disorder (MDD)
  116. 10.8: Anxiety Disorders
  117. 10.9: Eating Disorders
  118. 10.10: Psychosis
  119. 10.11: Barriers to Treatment
  120. 10.12: Reducing Stigma around Mental Illness
  121. 10.13: Summary
  122. 10.14: Vocabulary
  123. 11: Culture and Social Behavior
  124. 11.1: Group Interactions
  125. 11.2: Group Interactions and Culture
  126. 11.3: Cooperation
  127. 11.4: Stereotypes, Prejudice and Discrimination
  128. 11.5: Conformity
  129. 11.6: Obedience
  130. 11.7: Summary
  131. 11.8: Vocabulary
  132. 12: Culture and Morality
  133. 12.1: Universal Morality
  134. 12.2: Cultural Considerations of Kohlberg’s Theory
  135. 12.3: Cultural Alternatives to Moral Development
  136. 12.4: Social Fairness
  137. 12.5: Psychological Reactions to Unfair Behavior
  138. 12.6: Summary
  139. 12.7: Vocabulary
  140. 13: Living in a Multicultural World
  141. 13.1: Acculturation
  142. 13.2: Culture Shock
  143. 13.3: Berry’s Model of Acculturation
  144. 13.4: Bilingualism and Culture
  145. 13.5: Switching
  146. 13.6: Cultural Frame Switching
  147. 13.7: Code Switching
  148. 13.8: Challenges to Living in a Multicultural World
  149. 13.9: Stereotype Threat
  150. 13.10: Contact hypothesis
  151. 13.11: Summary
  152. 13.12: Multicultural Identities
  153. 13.13: Vocabulary
  154. Back Matter
  155. Index
  156. Glossary
  157. Detailed Licensing