Gender Bias
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- Created on: 06-07-20 14:10
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- Gender Bias
- Key Terms
- Gender Bias
- The Differential treatment of males and females based on stereotypes
- Alpha Bias
- A theory that exaggerates the differences between males and females
- Beta Bias
- A theory that ignores sex differences or assume that there is no difference
- Androcentrism
- Theories that are centred around men
- Gender Bias
- Androcentrism
- Androcentrism can be conscious or unconscious, they typically occur in psychological research when a researcher generalised results of an all male study to the whole world
- Alpha Bias
- An example of alpha bias is the psychoanalytic approach in which Freud suggests girls dont share the same oedipal conflict as boys and so dont identify with their mothers as strongly
- Beta Bias
- An example of beta bias is Kohlberg's stage theory of moral development was based on interviews he did with only boys aged 10-16
- issues of gender bias often go unchallenged
- By better understanding gender bias psychologists can develop new research to reduce it
- Worrell(1992) suggested a set of criteria to ensure research methods arent gender bias
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