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Issues and Debates - Psychology - Coggle Diagram
Issues and Debates - Psychology
Issues
Gender Bias
gender bias
treating people differently based on stereotypes surrounding their gender, not real differences.
alpha bias
overemphasising/ exaggerating the differences between sexes
attachment - some psychologists believe that the role of the father is as a playmate and the role of the mother is the primary caregiver due to biological differences
beta bias
minimising differences between sexes
androcentrism
being centred around men/ ignoring women. Treating male behaviour as the norm and female behaviour as abnormal if it differs from male behaviour.
Milgram (obedience) used all male PPs and generalised the findings to women despite no women participating in his research
ways that gender bias can occur
using all male PPs (androcentrism)
overemphasising biological differences (alpha bias)
lack of women at senior research level in psychology
the issues discussed in psychology are unrepresentative of female psychological research concerns
journals are more likely to publish male research
lab studies can contribute to institutional sexism (Denmark et al.)
female PPs can be placed in an unequal relationship to a male researcher who can label them as abnormal
modern researchers acknowledge gender bias
embrace gender bias as a crucial aspect of their research that informs how they have interpreted their findings
Lambert et al. acknowledge how because they are women they will interpret the findings of their study differently from men.
gender bias can be prevented
Worrell suggests the following criteria to reduce gender bias:
examine diversity within groups of women rather than comparing women to men or vice versa
collect qualitative not quantitative data
observe women in real life contexts rather than as the object of a study
Culture bias
Ethical issues
Debates
free will vs determinism
nature vs nurture
holism vs reductionism
idiographic vs nomothetic