In our 508 reading, IS EVERYONE REALLY EQUAL, this is socially constructed just like gender and disability (p121).
What is Race?
What continent uses the “common sense” argument as justification for using the term Caucasian?
What is North America?
This population type is often overrepresented in psychological research and frequently criticized, leading to biased results.
What are WEIRD?
Historical conquests that created race as a social construct than a scientific one in order to oppress others.
What is Colonization?
According to Teo, this term is defined as operating with concepts that do justice to the status of knowledge in the social and natural sciences.
What is Scientific?
This term describes a sample accurately reflecting the broader population being studied, ensuring findings can be applied to diverse groups.
What is a representative sample?
The idea to have Western psychology include non-Western concepts to create a more inclusive practice that accurately reflects the world.
What is Global Psychology?
According to Teo, this term is unscientific from a historical, cultural, and biological point of view.
What is Caucasian?
Ensuring participants from all cultural backgrounds fully understand the study and its risks, which may require adjusting how information is presented.
What is informed consent?
Thomas Teo said these terms can be used as a placeholder instead of Caucasian as they are “understood as socially constructed categories that have no natural representation” (p.96)
What is Black and White?
Teo points out that his arguments are not about political correctness, but rather?
What is Scientific Incorrectness?
This research type focuses on an in-depth, contextual understanding of participants and can help include non-Western perspectives in psychology.
What is qualitative research?
Thomas Teo based his 2009 article’s title on Fredrich Albert Lange’s research strategy stating that “concepts that were metaphysical in nature - should not be used in a discipline with a scientific self-understanding” (p.95).
What is “Psychology without a Soul”?
In the United States, the idea that one “drop of black blood” makes one black is known as what type of rule?
What is the one-drop rule?
This type of bias occurs when psychological measures or tests are developed based on one culture and then used in another culture without adaptation, leading to invalid or misleading results.
What is measurement bias?