When Offering Advice Across a Cultural Divide, Which of the Following

question 41

Multiple Choice

When offering advice across a cultural divide, which of the following is recommended?

• A) Seek consultation
• B) Offer advice using the best practice guidelines for offering advice across cultures
• C) Offer advice and emphasize to clients that your advice is based on empirical research
• D) Offer no advice because doing so is always unethical
• E) None of the above

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Definitions:

Availability Heuristic

A mental shortcut that relies on immediate examples that come to a person’s mind when evaluating a specific topic or decision.

Explicit Bias

Prejudice or favoritism toward a group or individual that is consciously identified and directly expressed by an individual.

Just-World Phenomenon

The cognitive bias to believe that the world is inherently fair, causing people to rationalize an unfortunate situation as deserved by the victim.

Ingroup Bias

The tendency to favor members of one's own group over those in other groups in terms of preference, trust, and favoritism.