Sociocultural Approach Terms

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Across
  1. 2. behavior patterns that are typical of specific groups
  2. 5. perception of a relationship where none exists, or perception of a stronger relationship than actually exists
  3. 7. an approach that is cross-cultural, searching for generalities across cultures (across cultures)
  4. 8. children engage in an activity and then transfer that learning to later situations.
  5. 9. a person who is given a role to play in a study so that the social context can be manipulated
  6. 12. helplessness the tendency to fail to act to escape from a situation because of a history of repeated failures in the past
  7. 14. the belief that people are agents of; their own behaviour; includes intentionality, forethought, self-reactiveness and self-reflectiveness
  8. 16. The social process by which culture is learned and transmitted across generations
  9. 18. increasing interconnectedness of different parts of the world through common processes of economic, environmental, political, and cultural change
  10. 20. Dimensions (Hofstede) individualism, power distance, masculinity, uncertainty avoidance
  11. 22. resulting from the need to change and adapt a person's ways to the majority culture
  12. 24. research approach that attempts to retrace earlier events in the life of a subject
  13. 26. learning by observing others; also called social learning
  14. 28. teaching young children how to behave by reinforcing "appropriate" behaviors and by punishing or otherwise discouraging inappropriate conduct
  15. 32. removal of normal restraints that serve to keep impulsive behavior in check when people observe a lack of consequences for people engaging in that behavior.
  16. 33. when it is not really possible to maintain one's original culture, but because of exclusion or discrimination, it is not possible to assimilate into a new culture.
  17. 35. comparison a drive within individuals to gain accurate self-evaluations by comparing oneself to other people.
  18. 36. the interacting influences of behavior, internal cognition, and environment
  19. 37. a perspective in ethnography that uses the concepts and categories that are relevant and meaningful to the culture under analysis (within culture)
  20. 38. Emotional distress and pressure that may undermine performance
  21. 39. research that attempts to find a correlation between two variables by collecting data early in the life of participants and then continuing to test them over a period of time to measure change and development.
  22. 40. an experimental paradigm in which researchers create groups based on arbitrary and seemingly meaningless criteria and then examine how the members of these "minimal groups" are inclined to behave toward one another
Down
  1. 1. when one is highly aware of one of their membership to a social group.
  2. 3. An individual's belief that he or she is capable of performing a task.
  3. 4. the process of comparing the in-groups to out-groups ("us" versus "them")
  4. 6. the apprehension experienced by members of a group that their behavior might confirm a cultural stereotype
  5. 9. Beliefs, customs, and traditions of a specific group of people.
  6. 10. the culture that we grow up in and share with others in the same environment.
  7. 11. the adoption of the behavior patterns and cultural norms of the surrounding culture
  8. 13. an expectation that causes you to act in ways that make that expectation come true.
  9. 15. giving priority to one's own goals over group goals and defining one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group identifications
  10. 17. The process of putting people into in-groups and out-groups.
  11. 19. the process by which one generation passes culture to the next
  12. 21. "a rule of thumb;" thinking shortcut
  13. 23. Showing a negative attitude and behaviour toward members of groups that you do not belong to.
  14. 25. When there is an interest in adopting the behaviours and values of a new culture, while still maintaining one's original culture.
  15. 27. transmission from parent to child
  16. 29. the part of the self-concept including one's view of self as a member of a particular social category or group
  17. 30. perspective in which we see members of our in-group as better than other people, and people not in our group as all the same
  18. 31. A generalized belief about a group of people
  19. 34. process where the observer sees the model rewarded, making the observer more likely to imitate the model's behavior
  20. 41. Parents tend to rely more heavily on their former cultural views, while immigrant children adapt more easily to the values of the new country.