cultural bias

Question 1

what is cultural bias

Answer 1

the tendency to interpret all phenomena through the lens of ones own culture, ignoring the effects that cultural differences might have on behaviour

Question 2

what is ethnocentrism

Answer 2

belief in the superiority of one’s own cultural group, resulting in the assumption that their culturally specific practices are ‘right’

Question 3

psychologists should be aware of cultural relitivism, what is this

Answer 3

understanding the cultural context in which the study was conducted in, to see if the findings can be applied beyond that culture or not.

Question 4

what is emic research

Answer 4

set of assumptions particular to a specific culture so they vary from place to place

Question 5

what is etic research

Answer 5

looks at behaviour outside of a given culture and attempts to describe that behaviour as universal

Question 6

what is an imposed etic

Answer 6

where a culture-specific idea is wrongly imposed on another culture.