Culture bias

Question 1

What is cultural bias?

Answer 1

A tendency to ignore cultural differences and interpret all phenomena through the ‘lens’ of one’s own culture.

Question 2

Where can results only really be applied to?

Answer 2

The groups of people where the results came from.

Question 3

What does WEIRD stand for? (the cultures that he would study)

Answer 3

Westernised, educated, industrialised and rich democracies

Question 4

What is ethnocentrism?

Answer 4

Judging other cultures by the standards and value of ones own culture

Question 5

What is an example of ethnocentrism?

Answer 5

Ainsworth’s strange situation - It only reflected the norms and values of American culture

Question 6

What is cultural relativism?

Answer 6

Idea that norms and values can only be meaningful and understood in specific social and cultural contexts

Question 7

What is imposed etic?

Answer 7

Looking at behaviour from outside a given culture and attempts to describe these behaviours as universal

Question 8

What is an emic approach?

Answer 8

Looking at behaviours from inside a culture and identifies behaviour that is specific to the culture