What do the words mean?

A very quick revision game focusing on Bias.

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Gender bias

What G B is a psychological tendency to treat both sexes from a male perspective?

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Deviance

What D means behaviour that breaks social rules?

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Androcentrism

What A refers to a male bias in research?

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Beta Bias

What B B minimises differences between men and women?

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Alpha bias

What A B exaggerates differences between men and women?

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Oedipal conflict

What O C refers to the male desire to view his father as a sexual competitor for his mother?

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Womb envy

What W E was coined by Horney to describe the male envy of women’s ability to bear children?

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Pre-menstrual syndrome

What is PMS?

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Prejudice

What P means a judgement you make without knowing the person concerned?

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Meta-analysis

What M A means a study that looks at a number of other studies to see if there is a pattern in the results?

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Kohlberg

Which K studied only boys and developed a theory of moral behaviour that applied to both genders?

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Neuropsychology

Which N is a branch of psychology focusing on brain structure and function?

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Gilligan

Which G suggested men and women reason differently about morality?

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Sigmund Freud

Which S F viewed femininity as failed masculinity?

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Ethnocentrism

Which E is used to describe the use of our own ethnic group for judgements?

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Eurocentrism

What E means focussing on the view that Western concepts are superior?

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Emic

What E emphasises each culture’s uniqueness?

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Ethics

What E refers to the morality of a study?

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Etics

What E assumes that most human behaviour is common to all cultures?

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Cultural bias

What C B occurs when people from one culture make assumptions about people from another?

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It’s never too soon to start revising

And now is as good a time as any!

Love Mrs G

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