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Psychology around the world
Psychology around the world looks at some of the ways people think in similar and different ways depending on where they live and their culture. The course starts with some general questions of how similar and different people’s psychology might be in different times and places. This is then followed with some key examples: how people perceive the world, and understandings of wellbeing. Finally, the course looks at how well these issues have been studied in psychology as an academic discipline.
This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course D110 Exploring psychological worlds: thinking, feeling, doing.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
- describe how cultural and societal factors shape some core psychological processes, namely how people think, remember and perceive the world
- describe some different cultural approaches to wellbeing
- understand how early life experiences impact infant development, specifically how early visual and auditory experiences shape cognitive and language development in infants
- recognise the historical limitations of early psychological research and how this has affected psychology's understanding of human behaviour
- appreciate the importance of incorporating diverse cultural perspectives in psychological research.
First Published: 01/07/2025
Updated: 01/07/2025
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