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How does the HL culture extension relate to contexts?
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Culture layers onto every context (health, development, relationships, cognition).
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How does culture influence behaviour?
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Through cultural dimensions, enculturation, and the meaning it gives behaviour.
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What is a cultural dimension?
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A broad value (e.g. individualism–collectivism) used to compare cultures.
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Why use both emic and etic to study culture?
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Etic compares cultures; emic captures local meaning — together they avoid imposed-etic bias.
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What is the imposed etic?
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Applying one culture's measure everywhere as if it were neutral.
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What is the stereotyping risk in cultural research?
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Treating cultural averages as truths about every individual.
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Is culture the only influence on behaviour?
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No — it interacts with biological and individual factors.
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How is the HL culture topic assessed?
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On Paper 3 — a source-based data paper (HL only).
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Why is culture linked to perspective?
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Culture is a lens shaping what counts as normal behaviour.
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How does culture affect help-seeking?
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Norms, stigma and family duty shape whether and how people seek help.
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