culture bias

Question 1

what is culture bias?

Answer 1

tendency to report ALL phenomena through the lens of ones OWN culture, ignoring effects that cultural DIFFERENCES might have on behaviour.

Question 2

what is universality in terms of culture?

Answer 2

aim to create theories which apply to ALL people regardless of differences in CULTURAL background.

Question 3

What is ethnocentrism?

Answer 3

Seeing the world from ones OWN cultural perspective and believing that this view is NORMAL and CORRECT.

e.g. Ainsworth’s strange situation

Question 4

what is cultural relativism?

Answer 4

insists tha tbehaviour can be PROPLERY understood only if th ecultural context is taken ito consideration.

Question 5

What is the etic approach?

Answer 5

Looks at behaviour from OUTSIDE a given culture and attempts to describe those behaviours as UNIVERSaL.

Question 6

what is the emic approach?

Answer 6

functions from INSIDE a culture and identifies behaviours that are SPECIFIC to that culture.