Cultural Impact on Cognition

Question 1

Surface culture

Answer 1

Behaviours, customs, and traditions and words of a culture that can easily be observed

Question 2

Deep culture

Answer 2

Beliefs, attitudes and values of a group

Question 3

Ethnocentric

Answer 3

Tendency to view other cultures through the lens of your culture, usually a Western bias

Question 4

Etic approach

Answer 4

Cross cultural approach where behaviour is compared across specific cultures

Question 5

Emic approach

Answer 5

Immerse in culture with no idea of what is to be studied, then develop method and theory after interaction

Question 6

Cognition

Answer 6

How information is processed, includes attention, memory, thinking, problem solving