Gender Bias -A03 Flashcards
Consequences of gender bias (
-ve impacts)
• Can create misleading assumption about female behaviour.
• gender bias may occur in research process
Solutions because of gender bias (positive impacts)
• feminist commentators have suggested number of criteria to ensure non-gender biased research investigations.
- Leading to increased reflexivity
- take a feminist approach to restore imbalance in both psychological theories + research.
What evidence is there of misleading assumptions?
By using their behaviour as standard female behaviour such as premenstrual syndrome or postnatal depression as seen as abnormal. this could provide a way for a male dominated society to deny woman opportunities in work/wider society.
What evidence is there of research criteria that insures non-gender biased research?
Worrell (1992) suggested a number of research criteria that are particularly important to ensure non-gender, bias, research. using alternative methods to explore the personal lives of women considering women in a natural setting and collaborating with the participants to explore personally relevant variables. This has valid data that can truly represent females.
What evidence is there that gender bias me occur in the research process?
There’s a lack of women who are appointed at senior research levels. This means that female concerns may not be reflected in the research. Denmark et al argued that this means that psychology may be guilty of supporting a form of intuition or sexism that creates bias in theory and research.
What evidence is there of reflexivity?
Dambrine and lumber in the study of the lack of women and executive positions in accountancy firms include a reflection of how the gender related experience influence the reading of events. This shows that academics are embracing their biases to understand how they’re involved in research processes reflexivity is important as it can lead to greater awareness of the role of personal biases in shaping research in the real world.
Who is psychological research normally performed on?
Psychological research is usually proposed by white middle-class men. Psychological theories are usually proposed by white middle-class men. Psychological research, historically which usually performed on white middle-class men.
Cultural bias in ash and Milgram studies
Despite only having restricted access to particular parts of the world, many psychologist tried to say we’ve discovered facts about human behaviour and that they are universal. Ashen Milgram studies which is very different results when they’re carried out in countries other than America. Is the norm for a particular behaviour as jessie only from the standpoint of one particular culture than any cultural differences in behaviour will be seen as abnormal.
Ethnocentrism
Judging other cultures by the standards and values of one’s own culture. I can lead to the assumption that one ethnic group is superior to another.
Strange situation and ethnocentric
Strange situation, criticised for being ethnocentric. Securely attached American infants with the idea, but this led to the misinterpretation of child rearing practices in other cultures Germany.
Strange situation and imposed etic
Imposed attic is a test measure. What are you re-devised a behaviour in another Mary Ainsworths study can be criticised for imposed attic because of the methodology that she uses. It is based on US views in standards.
Japan, as an opposition to the strange situation
Infants from Japan were churches being resistant due to the distress. They displayed during the separation phase. However, in Japan, the practice is for the kind of an infant spend all the time together. Therefore, this upset during the separation displays a lack of experience from being separated, not a resistant attachment type.
Who made a distinction between approaching the study of behaviour?
Berry
What is an etic approach?
I love the universal behaviour from outside of a given culture and a tense to describe and explain those behaviours that are universal.
What is an emic approach?
Loss of behaviour from within a given culture and identifies behaviour specific to that culture.
Operating under an approach, like this, with a psychologist, truly emerging themselves in a specific culture, developing an understanding of the coaches practices and developing research procedures .
