PSYC 3480 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Social Constructionism, Working Parent, Psychoanalytic Theory
7 Apr 2016
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Studying the bias in psych research: everything we know is derived from research, their may always be bias in research. Selecting the research topic may be influenced by: researchers" personal interests, researchers" assumptions about gender, researchers" assumptions about race and other categories of social identity. People need to get approval to get research (animals ethics approval) Perhaps the similarities perspective is not going to receive more grant money?? (differences approach is more sensational (more14287) Research"s that establishes differences are more likely to be published. Process: formulate the hypotheses (the questions they ask themselves may be a bias their, designing the study ( maybe be bias their) (cid:1) All of this helps us be more objective. Interpreting findings in a way that suggests female weakness or inferiority. Assumption that presence of gender differences implies biological causes (hines, 2007) Narrative approach: review and summarize many studies to form an impression of general trends on a particular topic.
