Cultural Differences in Psychological Processes

Study Notes

Cultural differences in psychological processes

Accommodation is the process of changing our understanding of the world to accommodate ideas that conflict with our existing ideas.
Assimilation is the process of fitting new ideas into our pre-existing understanding of the world.
Acculturation is the process by which people adopt a different cultural system.
Attachment is the special bond that develops between an infant and their primary caregiver, providing emotional security.
Behavioral Inhibition is a temperament trait where children demonstrate wariness, discomfort, or distress when encountering new, challenging, or unfamiliar situations.
Attention is the focusing of our limited mental capacities on specific stimuli, allowing for deeper processing and understanding of that information.
Attitudes are valuations of objects that occur during ongoing thoughts or are stored in memory.
Attributions are beliefs and inferences about the causes of events and behavior, both in ourselves and others.
Authoritarian Parenting characterizes a parenting style where parents demand obedience and control their children.
Authoritative Parenting is a parenting style that is often characterized by firmness, fairness, and responsiveness.
Acquiescence Bias is a tendency to answer "yes" or agree in surveys, rather than disagree.
Allocentrism is a collectivistic approach on the individual level. This refers to how individuals in collectivistic cultures may act in accordance with their cultural frameworks.
Affective Commitment is the level of personal feelings an individual has about their relationship with a workplace or organization.
Aggression is any intentional act or behavior that hurts another person, physically or psychologically.
Belief is a proposition regarded as true.
Better than Average Effect also known as the "false uniqueness effect" is the tendency for people to underestimate the prevalence of their desirable traits and overestimate their uniqueness.
Bias is differences that do not have the same meaning within and across cultures; a lack of equivalence.
Biomedical Model is a model of health that views disease as resulting from a specific identifiable cause like a pathogen.