Gender and Culture

Question 1

What is androcentrism?

Answer 1

taking male thinking/behaviour as the accepted norm.

Regarding female thinking/behaviour as defiant, inferior or abnormal when it is different.

Question 2

What is the opposite of androcentrism?

Answer 2

Gynocentrism.

Question 3

How has androcentrism come about?

Answer 3

The male domination of psychology throughout its history.

Question 4

What is an example of androcentrism in psychology?

Answer 4

Freud, oedipus complex disregards females completely.

Question 5

What is alpha bias?

Answer 5

exaggerating or overestimating the differences between men and women

Question 6

What can happen is there is an alpha bias?

Answer 6

If we assume there are differences between the genders (an alpha bias), one gender may be devalued.

Question 7

What is an example of an alpha bias in psychology?

Answer 7

Freud’s psychodynamic approach = fixations and stages, just doesn’t apply to females.
In particular, phallic stage, women do not have a phallus.

= alpha bias = androcentric