Methods and biases in cultural psychology

Question 1

What are the types of studies in cross-cultural research?

Answer 1

1. validation studies.
2. indigenous cultural studies.
3. cross-cultural comparisons.

Question 2

What are the features of (cross-)cultural research?

Answer 2

1. exploratory research.
2. contextual factors.
3. structure or level oriented.
4. individual or ecological level analysis.

Question 3

What are the types of research?

Answer 3

1. qualitative approach.
2. quantitative approach.
3. mixed methods approach.

Question 4

What are the types of biases?

Answer 4

1. construct bias. (e.g. filial piety)
2. method bias: sample bias, administration bias, instrument bias.
3. item bias.

Question 5

What are the levels of equivalence?

Answer 5

1. construct equivalence.
2. method equivalence.
3. full score equivalence.

Question 6

What are the everyday biases in cultural psychology?

Answer 6

1. ethnocentrism.
2. language.
3. ethnicity.
4. race.
5. assimilation bias/belief perseverance bias.
6. fundamental attribution error.
7. self-fulfilling prophecy//low effort syndrome.