key terms

• Universality


  Everyone is the same
• Levels of explanation


  • Levels between reductionism and holism
• Heredity


  Process in which traits are passed from parents to offspring
• Causal explanations


  If x causes y or if there is another variable which has an effect
• Environment


  Everything that is outside of our body
• Culture


  Rules and customs from a society or collection of people
• Indigenous psychologies


  Method of countering ethnocentrism - development of different theories for and from different countries
• Imposed etic


  Where a concept from one culture is wrongly applied to another
• Moral responsibility


  Individual is responsible for their own actions