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Attributions
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drawing inferences on other peoples behavior (may be universal in all cultures)-cultures just may differ in the way they make them
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Cross-cultural psychology
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a research method that tests the cultural parameters of pscyhological knowledge by asking questions : Is what we know about human behavior true for all people regardless of gender, race, ethnicity , culture, class,or lifestyle
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cultural worldviews
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culturally specific belief systems about the world, including beliefs, attitudes, opinions, and values. (due to a complex cognition)-different in each culture
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culture
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a unique meaning and info system shared by a group and transmitted across generations: allows group to meet basic needs of survival, pursue happiness, and well being, and derive meaning from life.
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culture-specific
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a psychologial process that is considered to be true for some people of some cultures but not others (such as cannibalism)
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enculturation
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the process of learning ones culture and it being passed on through generations
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emics
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aspects of life that appear to differ across cultures: truths or principles that are culture specific
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etics
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aspects of life that appear to be consistant across different cultures, universal or pancultural truths or principles
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ratchet effect
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concept-that humans continually improve on improvements, that they do not go backward, progress occurs because immprovements move upward. like a ratchet
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social axioms
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general beliefs about oneself, the social and pyhsical environment, and the spirtitual world. people use them to guide thier behavior in daily living, such as "belief in a relgion helps one understand meaning of life
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