L3.5 - Cultural Bias

Question 1

Cultural bias affects what?

Answer 1

Both reliability and validity

Question 2

Research has shown that there’s a variation?

Answer 2

Between countries when diagnosing SZ

Question 3

Study related to validity and cultural bias

Answer 3

West India and Britain both have SZ prevalence of 1%

West Indian 7x more likely to be diagnosed by white British doctors

Question 4

Explanation for West Indies Britain study

Answer 4

Diagnosis invalid due to culture bias or WI have more stressors

Question 5

Study related to reliability issues

Answer 5

60 patients with auditory hallucinations from Ghana, India, USA

Question 6

Result of the study related to reliability

Answer 6

USA patients reported having more negative experiences and were more hateful

Question 7

+ related to ethnic culture hypothesis

Answer 7

Ethnic minorities experience less distress due to protective characteristics and social structures
Americans had more symptoms due to less of ^ than A/A and Latinos

Question 8

• related to ethnic minority immigrants

Answer 8

Less valid
May be stressors like racism which cause the mental illness and lead to SZ, not being an ethnic minority
Clinicians may wrongly label

Question 9

• related to cultural relativism

Answer 9

Psychologist may not understand symptoms due to not understanding cultural background = misdiagnosis
E.g. A/A “hear voices” but it’s just of God due to religion - not hallucination