PSYC 363 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Androcentrism, Gynocentrism, Male Privilege

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Study guides for readings after the midterm part 1. Androcentric reporting of gender differences in apa journals: 1965 : review of general psychology, 10, 377 389. Implicit conflation of maleness with humanity and the consequent attribution of gender differences to females, often to women"s disadvantage. Androcentric thinking assumes maleness to be normative and attributes gender differences to females. In other words, what are the different types of data that they looked at for evidence of androcentrism (for example, the generic he ). Androcentric pronouns, explanations, tables and graphs in journals. Tables and graphs depict gender differences = positioned males data before females, except when gender difference among parents were concerned. Abstracts and titles referenced attributes of women significantly more than attributes of men. Make sure you know why each of these different types of androcentrism (for example, generic he , men coming first in a visiospatial display, etc. ) can be interpreted as androcentric.

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