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Gender Bias
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A-Levels PY4 (Controversies) Quiz on Gender Bias, created by Hayd23 on 13/06/2013.
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Question 1
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What is alpha bias?
Answer
Ignore or minimises differences between males and females
Assumes that there are real differneces between genders
Question 2
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Who said that the psychoanalytical theory is "grounded in the genital inferiority of women" and that it also "deduces their moral inferiority" ?
Answer
Freud
Josselson
Question 3
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Why is Freud's theory of psychosexual development alpha-biased?
Answer
It views masculinity in a positive light
It views femininity in a positive light
It views femininty as failed masculinity
Question 4
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Freud believed that women had a deficiency. What was this deficiency?
Answer
Boobs
Smaller brain
Absence of the penis
Question 5
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What is androcentric bias?
Answer
Theories and studies tend to be written and conducted by women
Theories and studies tend to be written and conducted by men
Question 6
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Who's theory of moral reasoning had 2 elements of androcentric bias?
Answer
Loftus and Palmer
Freud
Kohlberg
Question 7
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In Kohlberg's theory of moral reasoning, what were the 2 androcentric biases? (2)
Answer
Dilemmas used to assess moral reasoning were based on male perspectives
Kohlberg was a male
The development scale was based on male researchers
Question 8
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What are the 3 ways of dealing with gender bias? (3)
Answer
Reverse Alpha bias
Reverse Beta bias
Feminist Psychology
Masculine Psychology
Avoiding Alpha bias
Avoiding Beta bias
Question 9
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Reverse Alpha bias involves developing theories that show the difference between men and women but ...
Answer
Tend to not publish results that there was no significant differences
That emphasise the value of women
That emphasis the value of men
Question 10
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Feminist psychology aims to redress the imbalances in psychology. Choose a way of doing this.
Answer
Use evidence to suggest that women are actually women
Use evidence that women may be inferior to provide women with greater support
Provide more evidence that shows women are superior to men
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