Ethnocentric and culture bias

Question 1

What is the difference between cultural bias and cultural relativism?

Answer 1

Cultural bias is the tendency to judge people in term’s of ones own cultural assumptions.
Cultural relativism insists that behaviour can be properly understood only if the cultural context is taken into consideration.

Question 2

What do psychologists mean by ‘imposed etc’ when studying cultural differences in behaviour?

Answer 2

Where a technique or theory is developed in one culture and then imposed on another. An epic approach looks at behaviour from the outside, whereas emic approach considers behaviour from the inside