Culture & Cognition

4. The universal auditory ability to detect the direction of sound using both ears.
5. Shared characteristics of cognitive processes found across all human populations.
7. The West African society studied by Cole and Scribner in cross-cultural memory research.
9. The forest region in which Kenge grew up.
10. The systematic examination of similarities and differences between cultures.
12. The cross-cultural psychologist who proposed the imposed–emic–derived–universal research sequence.
14. Characteristics that emerge as common across all studied cultures after systematic comparison.
15. The epistemological error of evaluating another culture using externally developed standards.
17. The tendency to interpret differences between cultures as deficits rather than variations.
19. The type of long-term memory involved in organizing information by meaning.
21. Hofstede’s cultural dimension contrasting group orientation and personal autonomy.
22. The process of grouping related memory items together during recall.
23. A strategy involving repetition without meaningful organization.
24. The ability to perceive three-dimensional distance and understand that distant objects appear smaller.

1. The organization of recalled items based on shared meaning or category.
2. A research perspective that studies behavior from within the cultural context being examined.
3. Cross-cultural similarities identified inductively after independent emic research.
6. A memory method in which participants retrieve information in any order they choose.
8. The cognitive process of grouping items into conceptual categories.
11. A recall structure emphasizing ordered progression rather than semantic grouping.
13. A recall method in which items are embedded within culturally meaningful storytelling.
16. A Western-origin construct frequently criticized for cultural bias in measurement.
18. The educational context in which IQ-based intelligence testing was originally developed.
20. The research problem that occurs when culturally specific constructs are applied to another culture.