Glossary C

Cultural animal refers to the view that evolution shaped the human psyche so as to enable humans to create and take part in culture

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.

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Cultural assimilation is defined as the process whereby a minority cultural group takes on the characteristics of the dominant cultural group.

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.

Englisch: Political Psychology
Cultural capital refers to the extent to which individuals have absorbed the dominant culture.

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Cultural Compatibility Hypothesis refer to the hypothesis that treatment is likely to be more effective when compatible with the cultural patterns of the child (patient) and family.

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Cultural Competence refers to the state of being capable of functioning in the context of cultural differences.

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Cultural defense refers to a defense to a criminal charge in which the defendant's culture is taken into account in judging his or her culpability.

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