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what is cross culture testing?

cross:-

            "the intersection of two ways, lines or anything."

Culture:-

       
           " A particular form or stage of civilization, like that of a certain nation or period"

or

              the total of the inherited ideas, belief values, and knowledge, which constitute the shared bases of social action

Cross culture testing:-


"cross-culture testing is the most accurate way to compare people who were raised with different cultural values and norms, or in different cultural settings".

"it is dealing with or offering a comparison between two or more different cultures"

theoretical orientation

in cross-cultural psychology, three main theoretical orientations can be identified;

1. absolutism
2. universalism
3.relativism

cultural absolutism:

cultural absolutism assumes that in all cultures the majority of observable psychological characteristics like personality traits or cognitive abilities are the same

absolutism--------------majority of observable psychological characteristics are the same.

Cultural Relativism


assumes that culture determines almost all human behavior. it compares people from a different cultural background in term of their position on psychological variables is almost impossible from this position.

relativism============> Determine almost all human behavior

Cultural Universalism:-


 " basis psychological process is universal for all people"
   it is a kind of "middle point" or "middle option" and assumes that the basic psychological process are universal for all people 

culture will also influence the development and expression of psychological characteristics thought.

Universalism=============> basic psychological processes are universal.



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