What do the words mean? A very quick revision game focusing on Bias. psychlotron.org.uk
Gender bias What G B is a psychological tendency to treat both sexes from a male perspective? psychlotron.org.uk
Deviance What D means behaviour that breaks social rules? psychlotron.org.uk
Androcentrism What A refers to a male bias in research? psychlotron.org.uk
Beta Bias What B B minimises differences between men and women? psychlotron.org.uk
Alpha bias What A B exaggerates differences between men and women? psychlotron.org.uk
Oedipal conflict What O C refers to the male desire to view his father as a sexual competitor for his mother? psychlotron.org.uk
Womb envy What W E was coined by Horney to describe the male envy of women’s ability to bear children? psychlotron.org.uk
Pre-menstrual syndrome What is PMS? psychlotron.org.uk
Prejudice What P means a judgement you make without knowing the person concerned? psychlotron.org.uk
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? psychlotron.org.uk
Kohlberg Which K studied only boys and developed a theory of moral behaviour that applied to both genders? psychlotron.org.uk
Neuropsychology Which N is a branch of psychology focusing on brain structure and function? psychlotron.org.uk
Gilligan Which G suggested men and women reason differently about morality? psychlotron.org.uk
Sigmund Freud Which S F viewed femininity as failed masculinity? psychlotron.org.uk
Ethnocentrism Which E is used to describe the use of our own ethnic group for judgements? psychlotron.org.uk
Eurocentrism What E means focussing on the view that Western concepts are superior? psychlotron.org.uk
Emic What E emphasises each culture’s uniqueness? psychlotron.org.uk
Ethics What E refers to the morality of a study? psychlotron.org.uk
Etics What E assumes that most human behaviour is common to all cultures? psychlotron.org.uk
Cultural bias What C B occurs when people from one culture make assumptions about people from another? psychlotron.org.uk
It’s never too soon to start revising And now is as good a time as any! Love Mrs G psychlotron.org.uk