Issues and Debates - Gender Bias

Question 1

Gender Bias def

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Different treatment/representation of males and females based on stereotypes

Question 2

Example of gender bias

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Assuming that males are more aggressive than females

Question 3

Universality

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Believing that behaviours are the same for everyone. No differences between cultures

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Example of universality

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Strange Situation by Ainsworth was only studied on American children

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Androcentrism

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Theories that are focused on males

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Opposite of androcentrism

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Gynocentrism

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Alpha bias

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Theories that exaggerate differences between males and females

Question 8

Example of alpha bias

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Freud’s study made men out to be more superior, arguing that there are psychological differences between males and females. Femininity viewed as a failed form of masculinity

Question 9

Beta bias

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Theories that ignore or minimise differences between males and females

Question 10

Example of beta bias

Answer 10

Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment
Milgram’s Obedience Study