Worldwide research

A response to the Virtual Field Trips Activity
created November 21, 2021 by Lynne Kennette (@LynneKennette)

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Using MapCrunch, which randomly puts you somewhere in the world, I would ask students to pick 3 locations of the first 10 they are shown and to do some digging about the types of psychology research that has been published in that area (looking for universities and/or papers who studied students from that region). Then, in a cross-cultural comparison, discuss the similarities between the 2 populations in terms of the phenomenon that was under investigation (e.g., memory), including the limitations of typically using a WEIRD (White, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) sample in psychology research (is psychology research really generalizable if we always use a WEIRD sample)?

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