Culture And Gender Issues

Question 1

What is it

Answer 1

• culture and gender are factors that affect behaviour because they are 2 ways in which we are socialised in a society and there are norms and rules associated with being in a particular culture or being a particular gender

Question 2

Social psych arguments

Answer 2

• they are both referred to in obedience and prejudice research as
• with regard to obedience culture and gender are not considered to be a factor as there was little difference found
• with regard to prejudice cultural differences are found such as how a multi cultural policy in a society leads to less prejudice than a policy of assimilation

Question 3

Cognitive psych arguments

Answer 3

• memory is a process which seems to be similar across culture and gender
• age might affect memory however culture and gender haven’t been studied in this topic area
• given the role of episodic memory, there will be cultural differences in perceptions around what is encoded
• semantic memory might be different according o the way a language is structured

Question 4

Learning theories arguments

Answer 4

• consider effects on behaviour such as rewards or punishments or making associations as well as the effect of role models on behaviour such effects can be cultural
• what is rewarded in one culture might not be rewarded in another culture
• gender too affects behaviour as bandura showed in his studies
• learning theories emphasise the role of the environment