Study Questions Number 6 Shiraev Chapter 3 Critical Thinking in Cross-Cultural Psychology (59-79)

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1.	What is metathinking? How does metathinking relate to cross-cultural psychology? How can metathoughts help us to critically think about cross cultural psychology? (60)
2.	Is the distinction between objective and subjective evaluation a clear one? Why? What are the implications? Explain. (61-63)
3.	What antidotes do Shiraev and Levy offer for the problems of misuse of language as it relates to the bidirectional relationship between attitudes and language? (63)
4.	What are some examples of false dichotomization? What are the antidotes to the pitfalls of false dichotomization? (64-65)
5.	What pitfalls do Shiraev and Levy caution us about when we are exploring similarities and differences? What antidotes do they recommend? (67)
6.	What is the Barnum effect? What are the antidotes to the Barnum effect? (68-70)
7.	Define schemas. What is the assimilation bias? What antidotes do Shiraev and Levy offer for the assimilation bias? (70-72)
8.	What is the representativeness bias? What antidotes do Shiraev and Levy offer for the representativeness bias? (73-75)
9.	What is the availability bias? What antidotes do Shiraev and Levy offer for the availability bias? (76-79)
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