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?
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  • 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" ?
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  • Freud
  • Josselson

Question 3

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Why is Freud's theory of psychosexual development alpha-biased?
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  • 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?
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  • Boobs
  • Smaller brain
  • Absence of the penis

Question 5

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What is androcentric bias?
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  • 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?
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  • 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)
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  • 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)
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  • 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 ...
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  • 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.
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  • 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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