In his article, the author seeks to contrast the characteristics of two leaders and generals of the Civil War, Robert Lee and Ulysses Grant. The two generals were significantly strong yet…
People wonder about some questions like how similarities and differences of people’s behaviors emotions, motivations, and thoughts across cultures? How examines psychological diversity links between cultural norms and behavior in which particular human activities are differently influenced or sometimes dissimilar social and cultural forces? Several decades ago, cross cultural psychology has basically answered those questions. By critical and comparison, psychologists discover not only about meaningful links between a culture and the psychology of individuals living in this culture; they also advocates the idea that mental process are essentially the products of an interaction between the culture and the individual as well (Pike, 1998). In this paper, we focus on the “cultural traditional influences” on human psychology through analyzing the book names Pocho. As a lively evidence to illustrate what knowledge that cross cultural psychologists devote to human and society in the twentieth century.…
Similar to global psychology, the cross-cultural approach to psychology encompass a universal or etic paradigm of human functionality (p. 9). While cross-cultural psychology is viewed as an umbrella for the cultural model and ethnic studies, cultural perspectives differ in their approach to cultural analysis. Moreover, “[b]ecause cultural psychology entails the investigation of a single culture, rather than cultural comparison, cultural psychologist adheres to a relativist or emic perspective of human functioning” (Stevens, 2007, as cited in Stevens & Gielen, 2007, p. 9). Furthermore, the cultural perspective hones in on processes related to meaning making, such as the bidirectional relationship between a specific culture and psychological characteristics as they relate to language, myths, symbols, traditions and socially constructed phenomena (Triandis, 2000a, as cited in Stevens & Gielen 2007, p.…
Rana, D. K., & Sharma, N. (2013). Culture and psychopathology. Asia-Pacific Journal of Social Sciences, 5(1), 121-134. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1516054490?accountid=45049…
People are unaware of many of the biggest cultural influences on how they think and behave…
5. Explain one way in which sociocultural biases in testing might pose problems for assessing mental…
Not further investigating the cultural disadvantages of the individual or population being tested can lead to mislabeling (Anastasi, & Urbina, 1997). This has shown to have been done with personality and IQ tests.…
What is the difference between ethnicity and nationality? How are these concepts understood in the United States of America?…
There are many people in the world that are at war with each other and it’s a shame to see so many different types of ethnic groups that are so much different but on the other hand have a lot of things that are in common. Since the beginning of time there has always been some kind of jealousy or arguments between ethnic groups and each of their ways of lives can be a bit different which can cause hate crimes and such to each of the different ethnic groups. Psychology can come into play to help solve some of the problems that can occur between two ethnic groups. Cross-cultural psychology is a branch of psychology that looks at how cultural factors influence human behavior. (Shiraev & Levy, 2010) So in other words we as a whole can use cross culture psychology to help determine the human behavior and why a certain ethnic group can think about another one just because of the differences the two may have. Some of the differences between two ethnic groups can be religion. Not all cultures or ethnic groups pray or believe in the same God in the same way. (Shiraev & Levy, 2010) An example of this would be in the United States we have so many different types of religions that can have to do with the way a person dresses for church such as a Baptist church may not have a dress code but if a person was to go to a Catholic church a dress code is put into place. But there are many differences in religion just within the United States.…
Karasz, Alison & Singelis, Theodore M. (2009). Qualitative and Mixed Methods Research in Cross-cultural Psychology: Introduction to the Special Issue. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 40(6), 909–916.…
Multicultural psychology gives the concepts necessary to understand, perceive, and value diverse cultures. Cultures include the learned behaviors, beliefs, attitudes, and values of people from various societies. They are also considered the shared customs of a society. A professional working in today’s society should have an understanding that there is no one culture globally better or superior to another. The professional with a bias view of cultural diversity is said to be unaware of him or herself. Learning to accept cultural diversity is a journey every individual should travel to appreciate this multicultural…
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In researching about mental health for a project, I stumbled upon an article in the Atlantic called "Shock and Disbelief." In writer Daniel Smith's article, he argues that the electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is the complete opposite of the Hollywoodized image of electroshock therapy and instead is a very safe and proven effective way of treating mental illnesses. His purpose is to destigmatize ECT and promote a positive outlook on receiving treatment for mental illnesses. He adopts an educated tone in order to show his credibility on the topic to his audience.…
As a psychologist it is imperative to be able to understand different cultures. We should be aware of our own biases, perceptions, attitudes and beliefs that we hold about culturally different groups. We should also be knowledgeable about the values, practices and experiences of individuals who are culturally different from ourselves. We should also be aware of our strengths and weakness in interacting with other cultures and how we can go about addressing those shortcomings.…
Understanding multicultural is crucial, and can be a controversial topic in psychology. Psychologist must be trained to deal with the different diversity, and become multicultural competent profession. Guidelines and standards have been developed to assure psychologists are dealing with individuals appropriately regardless of their race, culture, gender or ethnicity.…