Issues And Debates

Question 1

Gender Bias in Psychology

Answer 1

Historically psychology has been a male-dominated discipline and critics argue that many of its major theories reflect this.

Some argue that the female voice has not been heard at all, it has been minimised, marginalised or judged as abnormal

Question 2

Universality

Answer 2

Psychology claims to have universality, which means the conclusions is draws can be applied to everyone, anywhere, regardless of time, culture or gender.

Psychologists claim that they discover facts about human beings, which are objective and not influenced by their own values (values which are formed by the social and historical context in which they live). Many commentators dispute this claim.

Question 3

Gender Bias

Answer 3

when psychological research may offer a view that does not
justifiably represent the experience of men or women (usually women).

Question 4

Gender bias (Alpha bias)