Lecture 12 Family Matters · Microsystem: Parents is the child's inner circle: microsystem How a child acculturate depends on the parents Have interactions with each of the members of the child's microsystem . Proximal processes: Child brings friend home and interact with the parents Mesosystem: the combination of members these interaction Quantitate methodology • Socially desirable responding How many times do you masturbate every week? How many times have you used hard drugs? How many times have you watched pornography this past week? · Culture variability? Solutions for social desirable responding Administer questionnaires anonymously, ensure anonymity Use neutral item to describe both positive and negative characteristics I am friendly VS. I am comfortable talking to people who I don't know Use separate measure to assess participants' tendency to engage in • Self-deception Socially desirable responding scales: in two different motivations Image management: want to look good in front of other people . Among people who had East or Southeast Asian cultural background Measure by using Paulhus Deception scale (True and False) . Asking questions usually about human had done Reference group effect How people respond to questions depends on the group that they are using for reference Solutions? · Provide certain reference group, so people know who they are comparing · Make question more objective (e.g. behavioral measures, physiological measures) Actual height, heart rate Provide specific context-based behavior or scenarios rather than abstract physcological concepts (e.g. emotions, traits) · I believe it's wrong to engage in premarital sex vs. I'm conservative
10/02/2019 Lecture 13: Measuring culture Research designs: Two primary distinctions for methodologies that are used in cultural psychology · Quantitative (numbers) · Qualitative 1. Understand your culture 2. Methodological equivalence · Researchers must understand norms and practices of other cultural environments (esp, re: psychological phenomenon in question) · Risk conclusions based on faulty information and assumptions · Accomplished through: sociology, anthography · International collaboration Cultural psychology outside the lab: · Sustainable behaviors Field research · Cultural psychologists (or cultural anthropologists go into field to examine human psychology Collect date in the field about research questions Field=anywhere that is not in the lab · Ethnography: comprehensive collection of data and knowledge about a particular cultural group Indigenous peoples' research · Indigenous research methodologies makes heavier use of qualitative methodologies than current mainstream academics Use storytelling Cultural practice of oral tradition > greater familiarity with expressing ideas qualitatively · Error 404 Mainstream psychology's reliance on quantitative methodologies indigenous knowledge receives little recognition despite repeated validation Many psychologists are not trained interpreting qualitative data and results Few indigenous researchers (vs. non-indigenous researchers) ·Not enough people producing indigenous knowledge in mainstream science, what exists is ignored • Amalgamating methods
Cultural methods Cultural products: Forms of communication created by people within a cultural environment, that reflect the overall psychology of the people in a cultural environment