Psychology · HL extensions (higher level only)

CULT — Culture (HL extension)

Psychology · SL / HL · syllabus-mapped notes

1. What the culture extension is

   Culture as an explanation of behaviour across populations: local, enculturated and global culture, cultural diffusion, and the link to the sociocultural approach.

2. Culture across the four contexts

   How cultural context shapes health, human development, human relationships, and learning and cognition, framed as transferable understanding rather than set studies.

3. Investigating culture: challenges

   Operationalization, the ecological fallacy, imposed etic bias and emic vs etic approaches: the research considerations paper 3 rewards.