Cultural Bias

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What is cultural bias

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The tendency to judge all people in terms of your own cultural assumptions

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What is alpha bias (cultural bias)

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It refers to the theories that devalues differences between cultural groups

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What is an example of alpha bias (cultural bias)

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The difference that is made between individualistic and collectivist cultures

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What is beta bias (cultural bias )

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Refers to the theories that minimises cultural differences or use only samples from one culture and apply the theory to all

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What is an example of beta bias (cultural bias )

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IQ testing devised in western societies but across all cultures
E.g ainsworth(America )
Schaffer and Emerson (Glasgow)

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What is the cultural bias concern ?

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There are so many differences between humans and their cultures it is hard to take account of them all
The concern and the focus therefore is the distorted view psychologists have because of their own cultural affiliations and how they apply these to others
For this bias is said to impact their theories and studies

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Examples of cultural bias

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Ainsworth
Emerson and Schaffer
As h study
Romanian orphans
Loftus and palmer -American students

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What is the two types of cultural bias

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Ethnocentrism and cultural relativism

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What is ethnocentrism

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It is seeing things from the POV of ourselves and our social group
Evaluating other groups of people using the standards and customs of one’s own culture

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What is alpha bias within ethnocentrism

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As one culture is considered to be different and better,the consequence of this is that the other culture is devalued

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What is an example of alpha bias within ethnocentrism

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In collectivist cultures dependence tends to be highly valued

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What is beta bias within ethnocentrism

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Is when psychologist believe that their world view is the only view

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What is an example of beta bias within ethnocentrism

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Using America’s IQ tests all over the world making it universal

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What is culture relativism

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Is the view that behaviour cannot be judged properly unless it is viewed in the context of the culture in which it originates from

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What is alpha bias within culture relativism

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Is where the assumptions of real differences leads psychologists to overlook universals

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What is example of alpha bias within culture relativism

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Men in all cultures where more aggressive than women -universal however the research thought that’s there was a significant difference due to culture

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What is beta bias within culture relativism

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Is assuming the same rules apply universally which may lead it to diagnose some people as being mentally ill,but that diagnosis is relative to culture

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Examples of ethnocentrism

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Supporting your own team
Media
Curriculums

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Cultural bias evaluation weakness

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P:bias in research methods
E:evidence for this is that researchers found in an European textbook on social psychology that 66% of studies were American ,32% were European and 2% came from the rest of the world
E:this suggests that the psychology findings are not only unrepresentative on a global scale but also within western culture and there is a pressing need for more research with samples from different cultural groups as the research shows alpha bias therefore it can’t be generalised to the wider population and lacks representation

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Cultural bias evaluation strength

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P:cross cultural research in the worldwide psychology community
E:for example, discussing and exchanging ideas paved a way for how David Buss found his researchers in 37 different cultures
E:this shows how exchange in ideas should reduce ethnocentrism in psychology enabling an understanding of cultural relativism and this means that real differences are identified and valued providing it with RWA