PSY450H1 Chapter 18-19: psy450- chapters 18- 19 richards.docx
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Initially, psychology saw no need to differentiate bc sexes regarding basic processes such as perception, memory and learning (although sex diff was already asserted) White males were primary interest of focus and considered the morn. Bw 1850-1950, attitudes towards women were stereotypical. Scale took the stereotypical gender-trait as unproblematic. Gender remained side issue until 1950s until it expanded rapidly in the 1960s with the rivial of feminism, which was also a period where # of women entering disciple rose. 1969- ratio of psych students in britain was 60:40 for men and in 2001, 80:20 for women-thus cultural preoccupations with the position of women and their rise into disciple. Although prior to 1960s, psychology paid women relatively little explicit attention, psychoanalytic schools were major exceptions. Starting in the mid-nineteenth century, idealization and infantilisation of women (particularly middle-class women) was at a high pitch.
