Socio-Cultural Studies: Aims

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Across
  1. 2. To investigate whether aggression can be learned through observation and imitation.
  2. 4. To investigate the effect that schooling would have on the strategies that children used to memorize lists of words. (also to investigate if culture had a different effect on how one memorises)
  3. 6. To investigate if there is a relationship between a refugee’s level of acculturation and their mental and physical health.
  4. 8. To measure the level of conformity in these two types of societies by applying a version of the Asch Paradigm.
  5. 10. To investigate whether Indigenous Australians might perform better on tests that took advantage of their ability to encode with visual cues.
  6. 11. To investigate stereotype threat as applied to women and maths performance.
  7. 12. To examine the effect of cultural dimensions on volunteer behaviour.
  8. 14. To demonstrate the impacts of stereotype threat on performance.
  9. 16. To carry out a cross-cultural comparison of cognitive styles in Chinese and US students.
  10. 18. To determine how social category salience may play a role on the development of stereotypes and inter-group behaviour in elementary school children.
  11. 19. To investigate illusory correlation of group size and negative behaviour.
Down
  1. 1. To investigate the role of social identity in self-esteem.
  2. 3. To investigate factors that affect minimal group paradigm-based discrimination.
  3. 5. To investigate if intergroup discrimination would take place based on being put into different groups categorised as in-groups and out-groups in a situation where people had just met
  4. 7. To explore links between aggression and 2 other cognitive factors that may influence aggressive behaviour in children
  5. 9. To investigate if people that are new to a culture/place (Zimbabwe) will adopt the stereotypes and feelings of prejudice about the local minority (African) population.
  6. 13. To investigate the variables that may predict acculturative stress in a nationally representative sample of Asian immigrants and Asian Americans.
  7. 15. To investigate whether observational learning can have an influence on childrens’ understanding of gender roles.
  8. 17. To investigate the role that parents may play in gender-role development.