Cross-Cultural Psychology: Critical Thinking and Contemporary Applications

By (author): "David A. Levy, Eric Shiraev"
Publish Date: 2000
Cross-Cultural Psychology: Critical Thinking and Contemporary Applications
ISBN0205474322
ISBN139780205474325
AsinCross-Cultural Psychology: Critical Thinking and Contemporary Applications
Original titleCross-Cultural Psychology: Critical Thinking and Contemporary Applications
Shiraev and Levy provide a comprehensive review of theories andresearch in cross-cultural psychology within a critical thinkingframework for examining, analyzing, and evaluating psychological data.A critical thinking framework, including Critical Thinking boxes andtables, provide practice in developing learning skills. More than thirtyhigh-interest activities and exercises provide students ampleopportunity for active learning and enhanced comprehension. This bookintroduces the field of cross-cultural psychology, discusses basicmethodology for cross-cultural research, and explores the fields ofsensation and perception, consciousness, intelligence, humandevelopment, emotion, motivation, social perception and interaction, psychological disorders from a cross-cultural perspective