Please provide ONE example of a non-visual culture for my consideration. Please give me something.
----- Original Message ----- From: michael sylvester <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, July 5, 2009 5:13 pm Subject: [tips] Cross-cultural for Tipsters(5) To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <[email protected]> > > Attempts to find culture-free or culture fair instruments have been a major > problem for Eurocentric psychology.Not only do I have a beef with > psychometric testing in this regard,but also with those so called projective > tests like the TAT and that inkblot test (Rorshach.It does appear that these > projective tests do not require literacy and are immune from cultural and > ethnic aspects.After all an inkblot is the same in > India,Afghanistan,Honduras,North Korea,Iran, and the U.S-but not so > fast.Apart from the suspiciousness of the experimenter's intent.there is also > the problem of culture's influence on interpretation: for examples,certain > cards are seen as bats,butterflies,or moths and would indicate some > conditioning to Eurocentric variables,There are popular responses associated > with certain cards.But popular responses in Toromto might not the same as in > Islamabad. > And if we are to look at the so-called color influenced responses, non-visual > cultures may not be able to differentiate.Westercultures > tend to be very visual. > And I can go on and on. > MIchael Sylvester.PhD > Daytona Beach,Florida > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > Bill Southerly ([email protected]) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
