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12 Cards in this Set
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Absolution
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in discussion of culture research the concept that maintains that behavioral phenomina can be viewed from the same perspective regardless of the culture in which they appear
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Back Translation
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the process by which comparable testing instruments are developed by translating from an original language to a second language then back to the firt to enure that the original version and the translation back into that language produce comparable meanings
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Content Validity
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the degree to which the material contained in a test relate to the concept being assessed
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culture
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the customes behaviors attitudes and values and the objects and implements that can be used to identify and characterize a population
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Emic
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a research finding that is only valid within a given culture
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Ethnicity
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a concept related to a persons identification with a particular group of people often based on ancestry country of origin or religion
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Etic
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a research finding that appears to be universally true across cultures
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Interpertation Paradox
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in cultureal research the fact that large differences between groups are easy to spot but hard to understand because there are so many factors that could be respensible whereas small differences are harder to spot but easier to explain
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one drop rule
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one means by which as person is racially catergorized as a member of a low status group such that if he or she has one drop of blood from a given groupthe individual is automatically classified as being from that group used specifically with people of african descent who live in the united states
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race
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a controversial concept with very limited construct validity about classification of people based on real or imagined biolgoical traits often centering on skin color
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relativism
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the concept that maintains that behavioral phenomena can be understood only within the context of culture in which they occure
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universalism
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a moderating view in cultureal research that maintains that behavioral phenomena may be based on invariant psychological processes but that each culture will induce different manifestations of those underlying processes
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