Culture And Gender

Question 1

Gender bias, def- AO1

Answer 1

Favouring one gender over the other, this happens because you think one is better than the other

Question 2

Alpha bias- AO1

Answer 2

When the findings of research exaggerates the differences between males and females, leading to stereotypes, one gender will end up under valued from the other

Question 3

Beta bias, def- AO1

Answer 3

When the findings of research minimose the difference between males and females, happens because they think men and women are the same

Question 4

Two types of beta bias- AO1

Answer 4

Androcentrism- male centred research, applied to understand everyone’s behaviour
Gyno centrism- female scented research, applied to understand everybody’s behaviour

Question 5

Cultural bias, def- AO1

Answer 5

Favouring one culture over another, bad thing, used to judge other cultures

Question 6

Two types of culture- AO1

Answer 6

Individualistic – people work towards their own goals, work independently
Collectivistic – people work together, depend on each other

Question 7

Ethnocentrism – AO1

Answer 7

When you focus on one culture, use it as a bench mark and apply the findings to multiple cultures

Question 8

Eurocentrism – AO1

Answer 8

When the study focuses on countries in Europe and applies findings to multiple cultures

Question 9

Social, gender bias- AO3

Answer 9

Milgram-40m, 65%->450v, can’t be appd to women
Burger- 70m+f, 70%->150v, more rep of genders
Sherif- 22b, p+d, can’t app to girls

Question 10

Social, culture bias- AO3

Answer 10

Milgram- ppts USA, 65%->450v, can’t be appd to other cultures. ETHNOCENTRIC
Sherif- ppts USA, p+d, can’t be appd to other cultures
Wetheral- NZ, shared culture

Question 11

Bio, gender bias- AO3

Answer 11

Raine- 2f/39m, BA of murderers are diff to NM, can’t be appd fully to females
Hormones- M prod more T than W->agg, leads to stereotypes. ALPHA BIAS
Freud- electra/ oedipus complex, men go through well women don’t->penis envy
-> women lack morals, small SE, lack morals

Question 12

Bio, culture bias- AO3

Answer 12

Raine-ppts from USA, only app to ppl in US. ETHNOCENTRIC

Question 13

Cognitive, gender bias- AO3

Answer 13

Baddeley- didn’t look at gender difference in the STM and WM. BETA BIAS

Question 14

Cognitive, culture bias- AO3

Answer 14

Stevyers- 5 naturalistic scenes only from western cultures, only app to western cultures

Question 15

Learning, gender bias- AO3

Answer 15

Watson and raynor- 11mo boy, can’t app development of phobias on everyone

Question 16

Learning, culture bias- AO3

Answer 16

Bandura- ppts from USA, obs and imitate agg rm, only app to US