gender bias

• what is gender bias

  when a theory or research doesn’t represent the experience or behaviour of both the sexes. most research is male dominated
• Alpha bias

  diffrences of the sexes are exaggerated typically under value women
• Example of alpha bias 


  Freuds psychosexual stages

  falice stage

  women never identify with their mums therefore develop a weaker super ego
• Beta bias

  differences are minimised

  findings are generalised
• Beta bias example

  fight or flight response is based on research with only males involved but then generalised to women

  later found women tend and befriend
• Androcentrism

  normal behaviour is judged from the male standard
• Example of androcentic

  list of top 100 most influential psychologists 6 were female