Culture Bias Flashcards
What is Ethnocentrism?
Means seeing the world only from one’s only cultural perspective and believing that this one perspective is both normal and correct. Superior.
What is an Example of Ethnocentrism?
Ainsworth Situation Research - bases how the children act on American Norms. German children are found to be more resistant however they aren’t, they just have a different norm of how a child should behave.
What is Cultural Relativism?
insists that behaviour can be
properly understood only if the
cultural context is taken into
consideration.
What is an Example of Cultural Relativism?
Sternberg (1985) - pointed out the coordination skills that maybe essential to life in a pre literate society maybe mostly irrelevant to intelligent behaviour for most people in a literate and more ‘developed’ society.
What is an Etic Approach?
An etic approach looks at behaviour from
outside of a culture and attempts to describe
the behaviours and identify universals. (Mary
Ainsworth’s research is an example of this)
What is an Emic Approach?
An emic approach is one where one culture is
studied in order to discover culture-specific
behaviours (with no attempt made to relate it
to other cultures)
What is Imposed etic?
When a culture specific idea is wrongly imposed on another culture – this is a consequence of taking an etic approach
What is a Topic example of culture bias?
The Strange Situation. It only reflects the norm of ‘Western culture’. Japanese children are more likely to be classed as insecurely attached.
What is one consequence of Culture Bias? (Eval)
Prejudice and ethnic stereotyping, e.g. Gould (1981) explained the first IQ tests assumed everyone would know the names of US
presidents. When south-eastern Europeans received low scores it was taken as a sign of ethnic inferiority, and informed policies, rather than as an issue with tests.
What is one consequence of Culture Bias? (Eval)
Wrongly applied findings– if your sample only includes White British people but you apply the findings to another culture/ethnicity, it may be damaging
What is one solution of Culture Bias? (Eval)
Cultural bias may not be an such an issue in 2024 – Cultures are becoming similar due to globalisation – all cultures are very connected due to global communicatio
What is one Solution to Culture Bias? (Eval)
Some behaviours may be universal.
