debates in psychology - ethnocentrism

Question 1

what is ethnocentrism?

Answer 1

A bias towards your own culture. we look at other cultures from our own view which we see as right

Question 2

what are 5 cultural differences in behavior?

Answer 2

• mental illness, symptoms, treatment, diagnosis
• attachment types
• child rearing practives
• gender roles
• taking drugs

Question 3

where are most psychological studies conducted yet still generalised to everyone

Answer 3

the west

Question 4

what is ethnocentric researh

Answer 4

when the participants are taken from the researchers own ethnic group

Question 5

what case highlights the problems with ethnocentrism

Answer 5

calvin

Question 6

what is cross cultural research

Answer 6

when you research across different cultures

Question 7

what is cross cultural research good for studying

Answer 7

the nature/nurture debate

Question 8

what did van ijzendoom and kronenberg do

Answer 8

the strange situation cross culturally but they didn’t modify it

Question 9

what are 2 ways to approach cross cultural research?

Answer 9

the etic and emic approach

Question 10

what is the etic approach?

Answer 10

a procedure devised in one culture is used to look at other cultures

Question 11

in the etic approach does the researcher act as an insider or outsider

Answer 11

outsider

Question 12

what is an example of a study that used the etic approach

Answer 12

the strange situation

Question 13

what is imposed etic

Answer 13

when the original culture gets imposed on the other culture

Question 14

what is the emic approach

Answer 14

when the study focuses on individual cultures and is studied from the perspective of the insider

Question 15

what do each approach apply their results to

Answer 15

etic - generalises to everyone

emic - only applied to the one culture

Question 16

what is an example of an emic study

Answer 16

omoaregba et al (2009) looked at nigerian women with schizophrenia

Question 17

evaluation of cross cultrual research (4 points)

Answer 17

+it helps dealing with cultural issues e.g we now know the dsm can’t be used cross culturally so the east needs to produce their own
+ identifies differences and similarities between cultures which helps with the nature/nurture debate
x the method used is more appropriate in some cultures than others e.g the strange situation
x somebody doing cross cultural research will be bias towards their own culture and use subjective thoughts from their cultural schema e.g from an american point fo view german babies were insecurely attached but from a german point of view they weren’t