Gender and culture in psychology: Cultural bias
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- Created on: 21-11-18 13:50
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- Issues and debates
- Cultural Bias
- A tendency to ignore cultural differences, interpreting all phenomena through the lens of one's culture
- 1992 56'000 of the worlds psychology researchers were American
- With 94% of Research being carried out in North America in 1991
- Ethnocentracism
- Judging a culture based on the standard of your own culture.
- When extreme it is the belief that your own culture is better than anyone else's
- Judging a culture based on the standard of your own culture.
- Cultural relativism
- The idea that the norms of a culture can only be meaningful in a specific social and cultural context.
- Universality and bias
- Hard to generalise the data that is found in the studies.
- The data found in the studies is only applicable to the people who chose to participate.
- Hard to generalise the data that is found in the studies.
- Examples of studies
- Ethnocentrism: Mary Ainsworth Strange situation
- Universality and bias: Asch, Milgram
- Cultural relativism: Mary Ainsworth strange situation
- Cultural Bias
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