AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Cross-cultural psychology touches on a wide range of topics, so students interested in other psychology topics may choose to also focus on this area of psychology. For example, a child psychologist might study how child-rearing practices in different cultures impact development.

Detailed explanation-2: -a research method in which specific social practices, such as courtship behavior, child-rearing practices, or therapeutic attitudes and techniques, are studied and compared across a number of different cultures.

Detailed explanation-3: -Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1832-1917) may be considered the father of the modern statistical cross-cultural approach to the study of culture for his paper On a Method of Investigating the Development of Institutions, Applied to Laws of Marriage and Descent(1889).

Detailed explanation-4: -Anyone who thought otherwise was on the fringes of the discipline and could not be a serious scholar – until Harry Triandis and the pioneering research that made him the father of modern cross-cultural psychology shook the field.