gender bias in psychology

• what is androcentrism?

  • placing a masculine point of view at the centre of one's world view
• what does androcentrism consist of?

  • alpha bias
  • beta bias
• what is alpha bias?

  • part of androcentrism
  • exaggerating human differences between men and women
• what is beta bias?

  • part of androcentrism
  • underestimating human differences between men and women
• gender bias in psychology: androcentrism

  • 64% of the world's psychologists were men in 1992
  • freud: women inferior superegos
  • milgram: all male participants
  • Zimbardo: all male participants
  • some female experiences have been pathologised (treated as abnormal) e.g. labelling normal menstruation symptoms as a medical illness (pre-menstrual syndrome)
• gender bias in psychology: biological explanation

  • HYDE: looked at different ways we can study gender: from social learning theory and socio cultural theory
  • BANDURA: studied children and support SLT of gender as learned behaviour as children copied adults of same sex more often than opposite sex. we can assume if they copy adults rather than developing own behaviour your they are learning about gender through others