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Issues and Debates A01 Cultural bias Ethnocentrism Universality and bias Henrich et al. (2010) found that 68% of research participants came from the US, and 96% from industrialised nations Many findings about human behaviour have a cultural bias Cultural relativism GENDER AND CULTURE IN PSYCHOLOGY: CULTURAL BIAS Belief in the superiority of one's own cultural group E.g. Ainsworth's strange situation reflected only the norms and values of American culture. Japanese studies showed different results A03 Paper 3 Berry (1969) argues that research may only make sense from the perspective of the culture within which they were discovered Evaluation Classic studies Many of the most influential psychology studies are culturally biased, e.g. Asch and Milgram used white, middle-class American participants This means our understanding of topics should only be applied to individualist cultures Counterpoint It is argued that the individualist-collectivist distinction no longer applies, due to increased media globalisation Cultural bias may be less of an issue in more recent psychological research Cultural psychology Cultural psychology - study of how people shape and are shaped by their cultural experience Suggests modern psychologists are more mindful of cultural bias, and are likely to avoid it Ethnic stereotyping Cultural bias has led to prejudice against certain groups of people Relativism versus universality Issues and Debates Paper 3 Cross-cultural research may provide a better understanding of human nature However, not all psychology is culturally relative, and there is...
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no such thing as universal human behaviour
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Issues and Debates A01 Cultural bias Ethnocentrism Universality and bias Henrich et al. (2010) found that 68% of research participants came from the US, and 96% from industrialised nations Many findings about human behaviour have a cultural bias Cultural relativism GENDER AND CULTURE IN PSYCHOLOGY: CULTURAL BIAS Belief in the superiority of one's own cultural group E.g. Ainsworth's strange situation reflected only the norms and values of American culture. Japanese studies showed different results A03 Paper 3 Berry (1969) argues that research may only make sense from the perspective of the culture within which they were discovered Evaluation Classic studies Many of the most influential psychology studies are culturally biased, e.g. Asch and Milgram used white, middle-class American participants This means our understanding of topics should only be applied to individualist cultures Counterpoint It is argued that the individualist-collectivist distinction no longer applies, due to increased media globalisation Cultural bias may be less of an issue in more recent psychological research Cultural psychology Cultural psychology - study of how people shape and are shaped by their cultural experience Suggests modern psychologists are more mindful of cultural bias, and are likely to avoid it Ethnic stereotyping Cultural bias has led to prejudice against certain groups of people Relativism versus universality Issues and Debates Paper 3 Cross-cultural research may provide a better understanding of human nature However, not all psychology is culturally relative, and there is...
Issues and Debates A01 Cultural bias Ethnocentrism Universality and bias Henrich et al. (2010) found that 68% of research participants came from the US, and 96% from industrialised nations Many findings about human behaviour have a cultural bias Cultural relativism GENDER AND CULTURE IN PSYCHOLOGY: CULTURAL BIAS Belief in the superiority of one's own cultural group E.g. Ainsworth's strange situation reflected only the norms and values of American culture. Japanese studies showed different results A03 Paper 3 Berry (1969) argues that research may only make sense from the perspective of the culture within which they were discovered Evaluation Classic studies Many of the most influential psychology studies are culturally biased, e.g. Asch and Milgram used white, middle-class American participants This means our understanding of topics should only be applied to individualist cultures Counterpoint It is argued that the individualist-collectivist distinction no longer applies, due to increased media globalisation Cultural bias may be less of an issue in more recent psychological research Cultural psychology Cultural psychology - study of how people shape and are shaped by their cultural experience Suggests modern psychologists are more mindful of cultural bias, and are likely to avoid it Ethnic stereotyping Cultural bias has led to prejudice against certain groups of people Relativism versus universality Issues and Debates Paper 3 Cross-cultural research may provide a better understanding of human nature However, not all psychology is culturally relative, and there is...
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no such thing as universal human behaviour