CPD Exam 1 Questions And Answers Latest
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Definition of culture - ✔✔explicit/implicit patterns of historically derived & selected ideas & their
embodiment in institutions, practices, and artifacts
Evidence for WEIRD thinking - ✔✔By contrasting- Industrialized vs. non-industrialized societies/
Western vs. non-Western societies/ Americans vs. other Westerners/ University-educated
Americans vs. other American
Müller-Lyer Illusion: the illusion of line length that is distorted by inward-turning or outward-
turning corners on the ends of the lines, causing lines of equal length to appear to be different.
Visual carpentered corners may lead to this illusion/ People who are raised where carpentered
corners aren't a thing won't be susceptible to this illusion
Framed Line Task (FLT): redraw line either exact absolute or relative proportion on a smaller
paper, Japanese performed better on relative task and Americans performed better on absolute task
Underwater Scene: Basic attentional processes vary. Americans focused more on the focal fish
whereas Japanese focused on the background.
, Kim & Markus Pen Study: Americans choose unique pen more than Asians. Americans want to
be unique whereas Asians choose to conform. However, working class Americans are similar to
Asians, choosing the majority pen.
Cultural psychology vs. General psychology (Heine, Ch.1) - ✔✔Cultural- psychological processes
are shaped by experiences
General- assumption that the mind operates under a set of natural & universal laws that are
independent from content/context
Ethnocentrism (Heine, Ch.1) - ✔✔Judging people from other cultures by the standards of one's
own culture
differences between surveys and experiments - ✔✔Survey- produces quantitative description of
trends, attitudes, or opinions
Experiment- examines the dependent variable by manipulating the independent variable and see
the effects on the dependent
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Definition of culture - ✔✔explicit/implicit patterns of historically derived & selected ideas & their
embodiment in institutions, practices, and artifacts
Evidence for WEIRD thinking - ✔✔By contrasting- Industrialized vs. non-industrialized societies/
Western vs. non-Western societies/ Americans vs. other Westerners/ University-educated
Americans vs. other American
Müller-Lyer Illusion: the illusion of line length that is distorted by inward-turning or outward-
turning corners on the ends of the lines, causing lines of equal length to appear to be different.
Visual carpentered corners may lead to this illusion/ People who are raised where carpentered
corners aren't a thing won't be susceptible to this illusion
Framed Line Task (FLT): redraw line either exact absolute or relative proportion on a smaller
paper, Japanese performed better on relative task and Americans performed better on absolute task
Underwater Scene: Basic attentional processes vary. Americans focused more on the focal fish
whereas Japanese focused on the background.
, Kim & Markus Pen Study: Americans choose unique pen more than Asians. Americans want to
be unique whereas Asians choose to conform. However, working class Americans are similar to
Asians, choosing the majority pen.
Cultural psychology vs. General psychology (Heine, Ch.1) - ✔✔Cultural- psychological processes
are shaped by experiences
General- assumption that the mind operates under a set of natural & universal laws that are
independent from content/context
Ethnocentrism (Heine, Ch.1) - ✔✔Judging people from other cultures by the standards of one's
own culture
differences between surveys and experiments - ✔✔Survey- produces quantitative description of
trends, attitudes, or opinions
Experiment- examines the dependent variable by manipulating the independent variable and see
the effects on the dependent
