AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: The sociocultural perspective in psychology focuses on the roles of ethnicity, gender, culture, and socioeconomic status in behavior and mental processes.

Detailed explanation-2: -The social-cultural perspective was founded by Lev Vygotsky, a Russian psychologist. Also known as the sociocultural perspective, this theory emphasized how a child would grow to become an adult and come to develop thoughts, behaviors and beliefs.

Detailed explanation-3: -Vygotsky: father of the sociocultural approach A pioneer of the sociocultural approach was the Soviet psychologist Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky (1896-1934), who became interested in developmental psychology and helped to change the face of the field.

Detailed explanation-4: -The socio-cultural psychology examines the influences of social and cultural environments on behavior. Socioculturalists argue that understanding a person’s behavior requires knowing about the cultural context in which the behavior occurs (Matsumoto & Juang, 2013).