Glossary C

Glossary C

Culture of honor refers to a social network in which men are taught from an early age to defend their reputation for strength by responding to insults or threats with aggression. It is a a society that places high value on individual respect, strength, and virtue, and accepts and justifies violent action in response to threats to one’s honor

Culture Shock refers to the discomfort experienced by people on encountering and trying to adjust to unfamiliar cultural practices.

Culture-Bound Syndromes refer to recurrent patterns of maladaptive behaviors and/or troubling experiences which are specifically associated with different cultures or localities.

Deutsch: Kulturübergreifend / Español: Justo de Cultura / Português: Justo Cultural / Français: Équitable Culturel / Italiano: Equo Culturale /

Culture-fair means equally appropriate and fair for members of all cultures.

Culture -fair intelligence tests refer to intelligence tests devised using items common to many cultures

Deutsch: Kulturfreier IQ-Test / Español: Prueba de CI culturalmente justa / Português: Teste de QI culturalmente justo / Français: Test de QI équitable culturellement / Italiano: Test di intelligenza culturale-equilibrato /

Culture-fair IQ test refers to a tests that are fair for all members in a culture.

Culture-fair test refers to a test, as in intelligence test that is designed to minimize the importance of skills and knowledge that may be more common in some cultures than in others.

Culture -free refers to descriptive of a test in which cultural biases have been removed. On such a test, test takers from different cultural backgrounds would have an equal opportunity to earn scores that reflect their true abilities.