bias

Question 1

bias

Answer 1

when people cluster people together into groups and develop laws to apply to them all

Question 2

universality

Answer 2

the aim to develop theories that apply to all people

Question 3

gender bias

Answer 3

the differential treatment and/or representation of males and females, based on stereotypes and not real differences

Question 4

androcentrism

Answer 4

theories that are focused on males e.g., Zimbardo

Question 5

gynocentrism

Answer 5

theories that are focused on females e.g., Ainsworth strange situation

Question 6

alpha bias

Answer 6

theories which exaggerate the differences between males and females e.g., Freud’s psychoanalysis

Question 7

culture bias

Answer 7

the tendency to judge people in terms of one’s own cultural assmptions

Question 8

ethnocentrim

Answer 8

seeing the world only from one’s own cultural perspective and believing that this perspective is normal and correct

Question 9

cultural relativism

Answer 9

insists that behaviour can be properly understood only if the cultural context is taken into consideration