Cross-cultural research (part.2)

What are the analysis does using situation sampling allow us to do?

Answer explanation

1. 1. Examining how people form different cultures respond to the same situations

2. 2. Examining cultural differences in the types of experiences/situations that people have

What are the analysis does using situation sampling allow us to do?

How does the situation sampling works?

Answer explanation

It works by:

1) having participants from different cultures make a list of situations based on a prompts in association with some psychological phenomenon

2) Another group of participants assess the list of situations generated by both cultures in step 1

Give an example of situation sampling.

Answer explanation

Fear: Described as reactions influenced from perceived danger or threats.

Step 1) Ask individuals from culture 1 and culture 2 to create a list of situation that causes fear.

Step 2) Have another group evaluate both sets of situation created by the cultures in step 1

Give an example of priming.

Answer explanation

Ask two groups of individuals from two different countries to view different sets of image associated with another culture.

Culture 1 (americans): Read stories from the perspective/point of view of collectivist cultures (to reflect the Chinese way of thinking)

Culture 2 (Chinese): Read stories from the perspective of a individualistic culture (to reflect the american way of thinking)

Then have individuals from each group create a relationship map depicting their connection to others in their community (friends and family). If the Americans were able to access cultural ideas that are more common in China the size of the circle and their names would be much smaller. And vice versa.

What is the following describing?

Making certain ideas more accessible to participants

What is cultural priming?

Answer explanation

Making certain ideas more accessible to participants. It follows the assumption that cultures may differ on the way they think only to some degree. Some thoughts are more accessible than others.

What is one way we contrast between cultures?

What is the problem with targeting specific samples?

What is the problem when targeting specific samples? (Describe and give examples)

Answer explanation

Generalizability: The extent to which findings generalize beyond the samples being studied/ Ex. Does studying WEIRD population mostly students allows us to generalize the findings outside of this specific context?

Power: Ability to detect and effect when it is present. Ex. Studying university students from industrialized countries, universities serve a shared experience in this case with many similarities. Does the university experience/context dilute the cultural effects?