PSY 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Publication Bias, Empirical Evidence, Effect Size
15 Oct 2017
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Epistemology: study of knowledge, how we know what we know, how we know if it"s valid or illegitimate: always (un)articulated backdrop for how we design methods, interpret & write about findings. How will our knowledge be used to better people"s lives. Gender role conformity and gender polarization: social psychology experiment video: Simple demonstration of how people take gender labels seriously. Boys walked through the one labelled for boys and girls walked through the one labelled for girls. Feminist psychology: multi-pronged/extensive reach has informed most theoretical frameworks and most areas of psychology (psychoanalysis cognitive psy, social psy, developmental psy, neuropsych, etc. ) Idea of adherent to gender roles is important aspects to social identity: pseudoscience perpetuated stereotypes, left unquestioned assumptions (pop psych/folk wisdom) Pervasive about a range of things, particularly in the area of gender. Include women in studies social norms, class: studying topics of relevance to women (e. g. , violence, sexual harassment, healthy, work, relationships)
