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| Culture | Shared rules that govern behavior |
| Cultural Psychologists | Study ways tha behavior is affected by rules of culture |
| Cross-Cultural Psychologists | Compare members of different societies searching for commonalities and differences |
| Reification | to regard an intangible process as if it were a literal object |
| Body Language | nonverbal signals of posture, movement or gaze that expresses |
| Conversational Distance | How close people normally stand when speaking to another |
| High-Context Cultures | People play close attention to non-verbal forms of communication |
| Low-Context Cultures | No shared context; emphasize direct verbal communication |
| Monochronic Cultures | Where time is organized sequentially, schedules and deadlines are valued |
| Polychronic Culotures | time is organized horozontally; valure relationships over schedules |
| Individual-Centered Cultures | the individual is more important thana the group |
| Collectivist Cultures | The goup is more important than the individual |
| Social Identify | Part of self-concept based on identification within a nation, culture of ethnic group |
| Ethnic Identity | Having a close identification with one's own race, religion or ethnic group |
| Assimilation | Developing a strong sense of acculturation and having a weak feeling of ethnicity |
| Ethnic Separatism | Strong sense of ethnicity and a weak feeling of acculturation |
| Marginal Identity | People do not fell connected to either ethnic or cultural identity |
| Sex | Classification based onunchangeable anatomical reproductive functions |
| Social Constructionism | No universal truths about human nature |
| Illusory Correlation | Belief that two or more variables are linked when they may not be |
| Bicultural Identity | Ties to both ethnicity and the larger culture |
| Sexism | Prejudice based on sex; |
| Prejudice | Unreasonable negative feeling toward a category of people or cultural practice |
| Production | Matters pertaining to the economy |
| Reproduction | Bearing, raising, and nurturing children |
| Ethnocentrism | Belief that one's own group, nation, race or religion is superior |
| Symbolic Racism | Focus of dislike is not on individuals but on issues |
| Contact Hypothesis | A method to reduce prejudice by bring individuals together |
| De Facto Segregation | Based on social practice and tradition; not on law |
| Hostile Sexism | Strong negative fellings about women |
| "Us-Them" Thinking | When two groups perceive themselves to be in competition |
| Stereotype | Cognitive shema or impression of a group |
| Benevolent Sexism | Involves positive feelings toward women along with paternalistic ans stereotyped attitudes towward them |
| Gender | Duties, rights, and behaviors considered appropriate for one's sex |
| Selective Perception | Tendency to see what you have been taught to see |
| Acculturation | A process byf which one comes to identifyf with the larger group |
