Cultural Bias

Question 1

Define cultural bias

Answer 1

Tendency to judge all people in terms of own cultural assumptions
ignores effects of cultural differences- seen as abnormal or inferior

Question 2

Define ethnocentrism

Answer 2

Belief that one’s own group is central or even superior

Question 3

Define cultural relativism

Answer 3

Belief you can’t judge behaviour properly unless viewed in the context of the culture it originated

Question 4

Define imposed etic

Answer 4

Technique or theory developed in one culture and using it to study the behaviour in another culture

Question 5

Define an etic approach

Answer 5

Looks at behaviour from outside of a given culture and attempts to describe those behaviours as universal

Question 6

Define an emic approach

Answer 6

Looks at behaviour from within a given culture and identifies behaviours specific to that culture

Question 7

What proportion of the world’s psychologists were American in 1992?

Answer 7

64% of 96 000

Question 8

What proportion of the studies cited in which book by which theorists were conducted where?

Answer 8

94%
key book on social psychology
Baron and Byrne
North America

Question 9

What is the issue of universality in terms of cultural bias? Give an example

Answer 9

Findings from studies conducted in western cultures applied worldwide
Hearing voices in indigenous cultures normal