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PSYB10 (Culture) Mind Map on Culture, created by andreaarose on 07/12/2013.
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Culture
  1. An everchanging, constructive stimulus, which shapes the way individuals perceive the world
    1. Nationality
      1. The country you were born in
      2. Ethnicity
        1. Your cultural heritage
        2. Identification
          1. The degree to which you include group membership in your self concept
          2. Meaning system
            1. Symbols, language, experience
            2. Describing culture
              1. Individualist/collectivist
                1. Politics, religion and ecological differences
              2. Language issues
                1. Is the meaning of words "lost in translation"?
                  1. Translation efficacy
                  2. Back translation
                    1. Translating a word/phrase multiple times between two languages until both translations are the same
                  3. How does culture affect us?
                    1. Cognitive framing
                      1. The framework in which you view the world
                        1. Priming someone with a icon of their culture temporarily increases their identification with that culture
                        2. Dialectal thinking
                          1. A cognitive reasoning structure through which an individual interprets the environment
                            1. Consists of 3 principles:
                              1. Change
                                1. Contradiction
                                  1. Wholeism
                                    1. Everything is interrelated
                                    2. Opposing propositions may both be true
                                    3. Everything is constantly changing
                              2. Cultural effects on emotional states
                                1. Emotional complexity
                                  1. The experience of many emotions at the same time, such as positive and negative emotions
                                    1. US - if you feel happy, you feel less sad
                                      1. East Asians - level of sadness is unrelated to happiness
                                        1. Chinese and Koreans - positive correlation between happiness and sadness
                                      2. Moving between cultures
                                        1. Acculturation
                                          1. Successful integration of the heritage of two cultures
                                          2. Assimilation
                                            1. Complete adoption of a new culture and simultaneous rejection of old
                                            2. Bicultural Identity
                                              1. Degree to which two cultural identities are integrated into a superordinate bicultural identity
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