Across
- 1. A social influence: when a person conforms to be liked or accepted by members of a group.
- 6. A social influence: Also known as social proof - when people look to the actions of others in an attempt to determine how to behave in a given situation.
- 10. Stereotype____________: when worry about conforming to a negative stereotype leads to underperformance on a test or other task by a member of the stereotyped group
- 15. the process of interaction and integration among people of different nations and cultures.
- 17. A study 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.
- 20. when one is highly aware of one of their membership in a social group.
- 22. typically taken within cross-cultural psychology where behavior is compared across specific cultures. Etic study involves drawing on the notion of universal properties of cultures, which share common perceptual, cognitive, and emotional structures.
- 23. when an individual abandons their original culture and adopts the cultural behaviors and values of a new culture.
- 25. using more than one method to gather data, such as interviews, observations, and questionnaires.
- 27. A study of an individual after an important change or development. For example, the study of a person after a stroke. This requires the research to "reconstruct" the life of the individual prior to the event.
Down
- 2. 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.
- 3. The process by which someone comes into contact with another culture and begins to adopt the norms and behaviors of that culture.
- 4. Research over a period of time using observations, interviews, or psychometric testing. (Similar to a repeated measures design in an experiment).
- 5. An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher
- 7. When there is an interest in adopting the behaviors and values of a new culture, while still maintaining one's original culture.
- 8. Individual characteristics that influence behavior and actions in a person - such as personality or temperament.
- 9. A bias: favoring members of one's in-group over out-group members.
- 11. Pooling data from multiple studies of the same research question to arrive at one combined answer.
- 12. the process of adopting or internalizing the schemas of your culture.
- 13. one's belief in one's ability to succeed in accomplishing a task.
- 14. A type of participant observation in which the identity of the researcher, the nature of the research project, and the fact that participants are being observed are concealed from those who are being studied.
- 16. the culture that we grow up in and share with others in the same environment.
- 18. Comparing two or more groups on a particular variable at a specific time. The opposite is a longitudinal design where the researcher measures a change in an individual over time.
- 19. ______________reinforcement: our tendency to repeat or imitate behaviors for which others are being rewarded.
- 21. a set of rules based on socially or culturally shared beliefs of how an individual ought to behave to be accepted within that group.
- 22. looking at behaviors of a group from the perspective of one member of that group.
- 24. social perception of an individual in terms of group membership or physical attributes.
- 26. When a researcher joins a group in order to better observe and understand their behavior.