Culture in psychology

• Cultural bias - the tendency to judge all people in terms of your own cultural assumptions
• Ethnocentrism - the use of our own culture as a basis for judgements about other groups
• Cultural relativism - in studying another culture, we need to try to understand the way that culture sees the world
• Culture in psychology AO3:

  • Indigenous Psychologies - counter ethnocentrism with the development of different groups of theories in different countries
  • Emic - emphasises the uniqueness of every culture
  • Etic - seeks universals of behaviour - danger of ethnocentrism
  • Bias in research methods - meta-analysis of psychology studies - unrepresentative on a global scale & also within western culture
  • Consequences of cultural bias - US army IQ test
  • Worldwide psychology community - international conferences of researchers - reduces ethnocentrism
• Culture in Psychology AO3:

  • Indigenous Psychologies
  • Emic
  • Etic
  • Bias in research methods
  • Consequences of cultural bias
  • Worldwide psychology community
• Culture in psychology:

  • Cultural bias - the tendency to judge all people in terms of your own cultural assumptions.
  • Ethnocentrism - the use of our own culture as a basis for judgements about other groups.
  • Cultural relativism - in studying another culture, we need to try to understand the way that culture sees the world.