Evaluations Flashcards
(5 cards)
Nature/nurture debate
Nurture- influence on the children by culture they have been raised in
Chinese children more likely to lie about a good deed, Canadian children more likely to tell truth
Freewill/determinism
Determinism- suggest that behaviour is determined by factors out of our control such as culture and age.
Chinese children find pro socially truth telling more bad as they get older
Holism
Investigating several different causes of behaviour and how they interact.
Investigated age and culture and different types of behaviour
Ethnocentrism
Not an ethnocentric study as it takes place in 2 different cultures
The topic of lying is universal
How would it be seen as ethnocentric
Only 2 cultures
Scenarios might not be universal
Language barrier