Gender Bias

Question 1

What is cultural relativism?

Answer 1

The idea that norms and vaules as well as ethics and moral standards can only be meaningful and understood within specfic social and cultural context.

Question 2

How is gender bias reflected in psychology today?

Answer 2

• Nowadays known symptoms of mental illnesses have come from studies on male particpants.
• This means that symptoms for female particpants can be unknown.
• This means female are often misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed, which is commonly seen with autism.

Question 3

Gender bias in psychology throughout history

Answer 3

It has been historically a field dominated by men: many of the psychologists as well as participants because educated has always been more accessible to men in the past.

Question 4

What is androcentrism?

Answer 4

• Because female behaviours are different, they are seen as ‘abnormal’, ‘inferior’ or ‘deficient’.
• It is the consquences of beta bias.

Question 5

What is beta bias?

Answer 5

Men particpate in the study but generalised to both genders.

Question 6

What is alpha bias?

Answer 6

Exaggerates/ overestimates the differences between sexes. More likely to devaule females.

e.g. freud believes that women have underdeveloped superegos because the electra compllex never gets fully resolved.

Question 7

What is gender bias?

Answer 7

Psychological research or theory that may offer a view that does not justifiably represent the experience of both men and women.