CULTURE PSYCHOLOGY CHAPTER 6
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Personality - ANS Aspects of an individual's unique characteristics
-Enduring behavioral and cognitive characteristics, traits, or predispositions
Trait - ANS A characteristic or quality distinguishing a person
Identity - ANS Perceived roles in life, life experiences and narratives, values, and motives
Perspectives - ANS Psychological anthropology-
Based on the ethnographic fieldwork by anthropologists who developed theories about culture
and personality
National character - ANS Perception that each culture has a modal personality type, and
people in that culture share aspects of it
Cross-cultural perspectives - ANS Focus on traits
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, View personality as discrete and separate from culture, and as a dependent variable in research
Cultural indigenous perspective - ANS Views culture and personality as combined entities
that are interdependent on each other
Indigenous personalities - ANS Constellations of personality traits and characteristics found
only in a specific culture
Measuring Personality across Cultures - ANS Based on the aspect of personality and the
theoretical perspective of the researcher measuring it
-The etic perspective assumes that personality can be measured and compared across cultures
-The emic perspective suggests that it is difficult to create measures of personality with the
same meaning (and validity) across cultures
Cross-cultural validation of personality measures requires psychometric evidence from all
cultures
Five-Factor Model (OCEAN) - ANS Model based on five distinct and basic personality
dimensions that appear to be universal for all humans.
Neuroticism
Extraversion
Openness to experience
Agreeableness
Conscientiousness
Evidence for the Five-Factor Model - ANS Found based on the similarities in personality
dimensions within and between cultures
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EXAM QUESTIONS WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS | LATEST
VERSION 2025/2026.
Personality - ANS Aspects of an individual's unique characteristics
-Enduring behavioral and cognitive characteristics, traits, or predispositions
Trait - ANS A characteristic or quality distinguishing a person
Identity - ANS Perceived roles in life, life experiences and narratives, values, and motives
Perspectives - ANS Psychological anthropology-
Based on the ethnographic fieldwork by anthropologists who developed theories about culture
and personality
National character - ANS Perception that each culture has a modal personality type, and
people in that culture share aspects of it
Cross-cultural perspectives - ANS Focus on traits
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, View personality as discrete and separate from culture, and as a dependent variable in research
Cultural indigenous perspective - ANS Views culture and personality as combined entities
that are interdependent on each other
Indigenous personalities - ANS Constellations of personality traits and characteristics found
only in a specific culture
Measuring Personality across Cultures - ANS Based on the aspect of personality and the
theoretical perspective of the researcher measuring it
-The etic perspective assumes that personality can be measured and compared across cultures
-The emic perspective suggests that it is difficult to create measures of personality with the
same meaning (and validity) across cultures
Cross-cultural validation of personality measures requires psychometric evidence from all
cultures
Five-Factor Model (OCEAN) - ANS Model based on five distinct and basic personality
dimensions that appear to be universal for all humans.
Neuroticism
Extraversion
Openness to experience
Agreeableness
Conscientiousness
Evidence for the Five-Factor Model - ANS Found based on the similarities in personality
dimensions within and between cultures
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