Bias - Culture

Cards (4)

  • What is cultural bias?
    The tendency to judge people in terms of one's own cultural assumptions instead of by the cultural assumptions of where the person is from; making assumptions about other cultures on the basis of stereotypes.
  • What is ethnocentrism?

    Only seeing the world from one's own cultural perspective, and believing that this one perspective is both normal and correct.
  • What is cultural relativity?

    Belief that behaviour can only be properly understood if the cultural context is taken into consideration.
  • Attachment culture bias:
    • The 'strange situation' is used to assess attachments in another cultures. Was developed in Western countries. Can lead to biased views of other cultures.