Culture bias in psychology - Issues and debates
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- Created on: 03-03-19 15:17
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- Cultural bias in psychology (4.3.1.1)
- Cultural bias Norms and behaviour from one culture are judged from the perspective of another
- Emic Approach Looks at the constructs of a culture so they vary between cultures
- Likely to be ignored or mis-interpreted by external researchers; insensitive to local emics
- Etic Approach Looks at the constructs of a culture that are universal
- Qualities of one culture are in-appropriately applied to another
- ethnocentrism The assumption that one ethnic group is superior than all others and that the behaviour of that group is the norm
- Becomes racism when another culture's traditions and views are disregarded
- Example Ainsworth's Strange Situation USA is the superior attachment and other cultures (GER/JPN) were irrelevant
- Example Testing IQ Developed in the West; has embedded assumptions about intelligence, but intelligence varies from culture to culture
- Cultural relativism Norms and values can only be understood within certain social and cultural contexts
- Example Mental health diagnosis; symptoms recognised for a disorder vary in each culture; e.g. differences in UK and US DSM
- However, some researchers may be unable to remove their own cultural beliefs / bias
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