Cultural and Gender issues
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- Culture and Gender issues
- Social
- - No difference between men and women in Burger's contemporary study (recreation of milgram)
- Women showed more moral strain
- Obedience is individual to each society and their social norms.
- Obedience is just whats best in each society.
- Prejudice- Social norms and stereotypes.
- - No difference between men and women in Burger's contemporary study (recreation of milgram)
- Cognitive
- Reconstructive memory and schemas depend on what information people get from their society.
- Bartlett's war of ghost story- as it is culturally unfamiliar, people change it to what they know and understand.
- Case studies- differences between cultures and genders.
- Biological
- Hormones depend on gender eg more testosterone in men.
- Li et al- took place in china amoungst chinese men.
- Adoption studies- kids were places in similar cultures to their own.
- Learning
- Social Learning Theory- Learn from role models within your own culture.
- Bobo dolls- Girls more likely to copy women and boys, men.
- Vicarious reward and punishment- seeing other people treated in your society and wanting to avoid that happening (operant conditioning)
- Learning anorexia from media role models
- Different cultures have different ideas of how girls should look
- Social Learning Theory- Learn from role models within your own culture.
- Clinical
- More women affected by anorexia.
- Anorexia is more common in US and UK
- DSM-5 and ICD-10 are suited for all backgrounds
- Clinical interviews are suited to each culture and gender.
- Abnormal behaviour is defined differently in each culture
- 4 D's- eg. dysfunction from life (9-5 job or walking 5 miles a day for water)
- Criminal
- Laws and criminal behaviour are different in each society.
- Schemas used in memory for eye witness testimonies so only familiar information will fill in the gaps.
- XYY Gene- only in men
- More testosterone in men.
- Social Learning Theory- role models depend on societies.
- Characteristics of defendant.
- Social
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