PSY 301 PU Cross Cultural Research Challenges Summarization

Throughout your coursework and professional career, it is extremely important that you write in your own words. You will often be tasked with reading psychological materials and then to incorporate the content into a paper or other type of written or oral presentation. At times, the material you are reading might be quite technical, and it may be challenging for you to present these ideas in your own words. This is your opportunity to practice this important skill.

Review the following websites to learn about summarizing:

Purdue Owl: Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

• Example of a Summary
• Instructions:

For this assignment, you will:

Read the passage (below) from your textbook.

Think about the main ideas contained in the passage.

Make a list of four (4) main ideas contained in the passage.

In your own words (no direct quoting), summarize the main ideas in paragraph form with a minimum of four (4) complete sentences.

Textbook Passage:

“Conducting cross-cultural research is not simply a matter of traveling to another culture, translating materials into the local language, and replicating a study there (Heine et al., 2002; Davidov et al., 2014). Researchers have to guard against imposing their own viewpoints and definitions, learned from their culture, onto another culture with which they are unfamiliar. They must also be sure that their independent and dependent variables are understood in the same way in different cultures (Bond, 1988; Lonner & Berry, 1986)…

Cultures vary considerably in how they define whether or not another person belongs to their social group; this factor figures significantly in how they behave toward that person (Gudykunst, 1988; Triandis, 1989). If people in one culture view the victim as a member of their social group but people in another culture perceive the victim as a member of a rival social group, you might find very different results in the two cultures—not because the psychological processes of helping behavior are different, but because people interpreted the situation differently. It can be quite daunting to conduct a study that is interpreted and perceived similarly in dissimilar cultures. Cross-cultural researchers are sensitive to these issues, and as more and more cross-cultural research is conducted carefully, we will be able to determine which social psychological processes are universal and which are culture-bound (Heine, 2010).”

Summarize this paragraph in your own words and include the following reference citation for your textbook below your summary:

Aronson, E., Wilson, T. D., Sommers, S. R., Page-Gould E., & Lewis Jr., N. (2022). Use APA 7th edition in-text citations and the resource given.