A Key Difference Between Cultural Psychologists and General Psychologists Is

question 36

Multiple Choice

A key difference between cultural psychologists and general psychologists is that

• A) cultural psychologists study people in many different cultures in order to study universals, whereas general psychologists study people from one culture to study universals.
• B) cultural psychologists study people from one culture, whereas general psychologists study people from many cultures.
• C) cultural psychologists try to discover laws that govern the mind as a central processing unit (CPU), whereas general psychologists study variability across contexts.
• D) general psychologists believe that the mind is independent from context and content, whereas cultural psychologists believe that the mind cannot be separated from context and content.
• E) general psychologists believe that all of human psychology is universal, whereas cultural psychologists believe that people in different cultures think and behave in very different ways that cannot be explained.

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Definitions:

SSB

Sum of Squares Between, a measure used in statistical analysis to describe the variability between groups.

SST

Total sum of squares in statistical analysis, reflecting the total variation in a dataset.

Factorial Research Design

An experimental setup that involves manipulation of two or more independent variables to observe their effect on the dependent variables.

Main Effects

The direct impact of each independent variable on the dependent variable in an experiment.