Biases in psychology

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Gender and culture in Psychology 

Gender bias is when evidence to support a theory is based around a specific gender. 

An issue with this is that you then cannot generalise the finding to the opposite gender making us questions the theory has universality.

To overcome this you need to use a stratified sample that is representative of both genders.

An example of research that has a possible gender bias is Asch. This is because he only used male participants in his experiment and we must question if females would respond to that situation in the same way which Asch experiment is lacking.

Asch's research also is androcentric which is when anything other than male behaviours is seen as abnormal.

A reason for gender biases being so important is because it is obvious that the 2 genders are biologically different therefore might have different behaviours in which we may need to study the two gender separately. This links to alpha

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