Culture Bias
- Created by: thomas.ofee
- Created on: 06-07-20 14:33
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- Culture Bias
- Key Terms
- Culture
- The values, beliefs and patterns of behaviour shared by a group of people
- Culture Bias
- The tendancy to judge people in terms of one's own cultural assumptions
- Alpha Bias
- When a theory assumes that cultural groups are profoundly different
- Beta Bias
- When cultural differences are ignored and they are assumed to be the same resulting in incorrect universal conclusions
- Ethnocentrism
- Seeing the world from only 1 cultural perspective and believing that 1 perspective to be correct
- Cultural Relativism
- Insists that behaviour can only be understood if cultural context is considered
- Universality
- When a theory can be applied to all people
- Culture
- Ethnocentrism eg.
- Ainsworth's Strange situation was ethnocentric as all of the children were American and there is in fact different results for other countries
- Cultural relativism eg.
- Sternberg(1985) said that coordination may be more important in a less developed and literate society
- Therefore this difference must be understood when conducting research into intelligence
- Sternberg(1985) said that coordination may be more important in a less developed and literate society
- Culturally biased research can amplify and validate damaging stereotypes such as the US army using an IQ favoured to white men and having a negative effect on the attitudes of the Afircan-Americans
- International psychology conferences are held and reduce ethnocentrism through the exchange of ideas
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