gender bias

• beta bias


  exaggerating the similarity between men and women theories will misrepresent one gender
• Androcentrism


  taking male thinking/behaviour as the accepted norm theories devalue and misrepresent women
• Gynocentrism


  female thinking/behaviour as the accepted norm theorris devalue/misrepresent men
• universality


  underlying characteristics, human beings that could be applied to all, despite differences of experience and up bringing
• bias


  psychologists beliefs are influenced by social and historical context
• Alpha bia 


  Exaggerating or overestimating differences between genders, one is seen as more important than the other, theories devalue one gender
• Example of alpha bias


  Freuds oedipus complex
• Example of beta bias


  Fight or flight response
• Example of gynocentrism


  Glasgow babies study
• Example of androcentirsm

  Freuds research