Glossary C
Glossary C
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.