Glossary C
Glossary C
Deutsch: Kulturanthropologie / Español: Antropología cultural / Português: Antropologia cultural / Français: Anthropologie culturelle / Italiano: Antropologia culturale
Cultural Anthropology in the context of psychology refers to the interdisciplinary study that examines how culture impacts human behavior, thoughts, emotions, and social interactions. This field blends principles and methods from both anthropology and psychology to understand the ways in which cultural beliefs, practices, norms, and values influence individual and Group psychology.
Cultural bias the situation that arises when one cultural or subcultural group is more familiar with test items than another group and therefore has an unfair advantage. Cultural bias, moreover, is a factor hypothesized to be present in intelligence tests that provides an advantage for test takers from certain cultural or ethnic backgrounds but that does not reflect true intelligence.
Cultural capital refers to the extent to which individuals have absorbed the dominant culture.
Cultural Competence refers to the state of being capable of functioning in the context of cultural differences.
Deutsch: Kultureller Determinismus / Español: Determinismo Cultural / Português: Determinismo Cultural / Français: Déterminisme Culturel / Italiano: Determinismo Culturale /
Cultural determinism is the theoretical concept that culture shapes individual experience.