culture bias

Cards (5)

  • universality
    a scientific study of human behaviour, then it should be standardised, it should be able to be applied to all people
  • Culture bias
    a tendency to interpret all phenomena through the 'lens' of ones own culture, ignoring the differences culturural differences may have on behaviour
  • psychology is WEIRED
    • Western
    • Educated
    • Industrialised
    • Rich
    • Democratic
  • Ethnocentrism
    Seeing the world from ones own cultural perspective, and believing that this one perspective is both normal and correct.
  • cultural relativism
    The idea that cultural norms and values are culture specific and no-one culture is superior to another culture