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Gender and Cultural Bias - Coggle Diagram
Gender and Cultural Bias
Androcentrism
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in the past all psychologists were male which meant the theories were a very male dominated view of the world
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Avoid gender bias:
- psychology was predominantly male in the past
- insure appropriate representation for both men and women
- only studying males only, apply it to males - not universalised
Cultural Relativism
- we should expect that different cultures will have different values
- taking cultures into consideration
- to not judge against other cultures, differentiate
- no universal standard for behaviour, can't get a deeper understanding of human behaviour
- only studying people from your culture
- sometimes universal, genetics can be studied whatever culture
Reduce cultural bias
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- conduct cross cultural research
- all products of our culture - culture lens
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- careful not to universalise their findings from one culture to all
GENDER BIAS
ALPHA - exagerate differences between men and women, suggests one is more superior than the other
freud - electra complex, women desires to be like a man
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BETA - ignore the differences, assume both sexes are exactly the same
- SLT assume both men and women will behave the same way
negative - males inheritance to a disorder, different for females (ADHD)
CULTURAL BIAS
ETHNOCENTRISM
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- stereotyping, discrimination