evaluation of culture bias DONT DO

Question 1

limitation of culture bias

Answer 1

-influential studies are culturally biased, eg, Milgram- Milgram only used American male participants, this means only western individualistic cultures included, this is a limitation as it can be seen as ethnocentric and impose etic, it cannot be universal you can’t apply findings to everyone

Question 2

strength of culture bias

Answer 2

-cultural psychology emerging field and include work from other researchers such as sociology which means cultural psychologists aim to avoid ethnocentric assumptions, this is a strength because it takes an ethnic approach and conducts research from inside that culture

Question 3

second limitation of cultural bias

Answer 3

-ethnic stereotyping extend to the first IQ test which were based on ethnocentric items such as names of all the US presidents, this is a limitation because the results were those of ethnic minority received the low scores and ignored cultural relativism, this has led to racism and has been used to justify the genetic inferiority of epic minorities which has led to ethnic minorities being denied of professional opportunities as a result