Ethnocentrism vs Cross Culture

Question 1

What is cross cultural psychology?

Answer 1

D: using a variety of cultures when determining psychological results
I: hard to gain participants from across cultures
A+M: could be any

Question 2

What is meant by the first, second and third worlds of psychology?

Answer 2

1st= USA dominates psychology, their results exported to other countries

2nd= Western Europe+Russia less influence but philosophical+scientific roots

3rd= importers of psychological research

Question 3

Advantages of cross cultural psychology?

Answer 3

• appreciates situational influences on behaviour rather then individual
• can compare cultures and see similarities/differences

Question 4

Disadvantages of cross cultural psychology?

Answer 4

• possible ethical issues if culture does not want to be studied
• hard to measure situational influences as not quantitative

Question 5

What is ethnocentrism?

Answer 5

D: producing results based upon one cultural group
I: bias, results cannot be generalised to wider world
A+M: could be any

Question 6

Examples of ethnocentric studies?

Answer 6

• Raine= Californian criminals
• Bruner= family in Netherlands
• Piliavin= NY subway
• Farrington= East London

Question 7

Examples of less ethnocentric studies?

Answer 7

• Kohlberg= conducted in UK, US, Taiwan, Yuchaton, Mexico
• Y&S= criminals from various backgrounds (B/W, city/suburbs)
• Milgram= similar studies carried out in Germany, Australia, UK, Netherlands