Cross Cultural Research

Question 1

Cross cultural research

Answer 1

Carried out by researchers who want to compare an attitude or behaviour in different cultures

Question 2

What debate can it be used to investigate?

Answer 2

Nature Nurture

Question 3

What do cross cultural designs allow for us to see?

Answer 3

What behaviour is universal and what isn’t

Question 4

Why do we need cross-cultural research?

Answer 4

Removes ethnocentrism - they are ethnographic

Question 5

Emic research

Answer 5

Studying a culture from within to find out about cultures and norms
Identifies behaviour relevant to that culture

Question 6

Etic research

Answer 6

Studying a culture from outside, looking and norms and ideas between them
Attempts to find trends that can be generalised

Question 7

What does cross-cultural research allow to improve?

Answer 7

Clinicians understanding of the cultural factors that they need to consider when diagnosing and treating patients from a culture different to their own

Question 8

Generalisability

Answer 8

HIGH - Reduces ethnocentrism in clinical psychology

Question 9

Reliability

Answer 9

HIGH - Standardised procedures are often used to enable accurate comparisons across culture

Question 10

Validity

Answer 10

LOW - Likely to be a clash between cultural values of participants and those of the researcher = subjectivity due to own cultural backgrounds

Question 11

Ethics

Answer 11

UNETHICAL - May lead to cultural stereotypes