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Gender bias
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Issue
:
Ongoing
causes for concern within the
field
of psychology
Debate
:
Two
conflicting
ideas about how to study
human behaviour
Universality
:
Any
characteristic's
that is capable of being applied to
all
e.g
emotions
(facial expressions)
Alpha bias
:
Exaggerates
differences
between the sexes
Real + enduring,
fixed
and
inevitable
differences
devalues
females in relation to males
Essentialist
(fixed)
Looks at
partner preferences
(male have
unlimited
sperm so more likely to sleep around)
Overestimate
differences
Beta bias
:
ignores
and
minimises
the differences between the
sexes
this occurs when
females
are not included in the research and then the
results
are presumed to apply to
both genders
Can also be the other way around but often the females are the ones not included
Androcentrism
:
consequence of
beta bias
male behaviour is viewed as the
norm
female behaviour is seen as
abnormal
Women being leaders is seen as
bossy
where as men are just seen as
dominant
leaders
Ways that gender bias can be dealt with:
not
extrapolating
findings to both genders
representative
sample
both
male
and
female
researchers
avoid
alpha
and
beta
bias
Limitation of gender bias: Research challenging gender bias isn't being
published
Formanowicz
analysed
1000
articles relating to gender bias
Gender bias research is
funded
less and published to less
prestigious journals
Other
bias’
are considered more seriously than gender bias
Limitation of gender bias:
Murphy
Psychology
is largely taken by
female
students but taught by
male
lectures'
Reflects
structural imbalances
and has wider implications for the
validity
and
inclusivity
of psychological research
This reflects
androcentrism
Evaluation of gender bias:
Maccoby
and
Jackin
Gender differences are in the brain before
birth
Found that in
scans
there were differences in girls and boys brain:
Girls
have superior
verbal
ability
Boys
had superior
spatial
awareness
COUNTERPOINT:
Joel
= used more up to date brain scans and found
no difference
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