PSYC 2600 Study Guide - Final Guide: Machiavellianism, Exhibitionism, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
3 Nov 2017
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Ge(cid:374)der is the (cid:271)eha(cid:448)ioural a(cid:374)d (cid:272)ultural features of so(cid:373)eo(cid:374)e(cid:859)s se(cid:454) Only area of psychology that politics and values get mixed with science. Meta-analytic statistical procedures: method for summarizing the findings of large numbers of individual studies, allows them to calculate more precisely the particular differences across studies and their consistency, allows them to estimate the size difference (effect size) Effect size: the size difference of a variable. Positive d means men are higher and negative means women are lower. Men and women are basically the same with differences here and there. Make sense of them by testing where the differences are and what causes them. Women are more gregarious, trusting, tender-minded, smile more (may be submissive rather than agreeable), conscientious, anxious, Women show 2-3 times more depression than men. Men seem to have more self-esteem: as children age the gap widens, but once in adulthood the gap closes. Behavioural: women are more communal/group oriented, men are more instrumental/independent.
