Issues and debates

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Created on: 15-03-19 17:37

Limitation of gender bias: psychological research

Might create misleading assumptions about female behaviour and validate discrimination. May provide scientific justification to deny women opportunities in the workplace- damaging consequences in real life.

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Strength of gender bias: feminist psychologists propose how gender bias can be avoided

Worell & Remer suggest criteria to follow to avoid gender bias. Women should be studied in real-life contexts. Diversity in groups of women should be studied, rather than comparisons made between men and women.

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Limitation for cultural bias: research prone to demand characteristics

In western culture, p’s familiarity with general aims of scientific enquiry is usually assumed. Threatens validity.

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Free will

The idea that we are self-determining

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Determinism

Hard-all human action had a cause. It should be possible to identify these causes. Soft-all human action has a cause but people have conscious, mental control over behaviour.

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