PSYC 250 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Ingroups And Outgroups, Intersectionality
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When there are differences among individuals in a group. When there is policy or action to allow everyone to participate. The idea that people have multiple different identities that overlap with each other. If you only have certain types of people in science, they will only come up with certain types of theories. There are more similarities between genders than there are differences. Mean differences don"t mean anything until you can see the distribution. When researchers only use the data that fits their hypothesis. Children in early childhood have a gender identity (they know what their gender is). They also believe that this gender is unchanging and that there are certain ways people in each gender should look and act. In middle childhood, children start to associate different genders with different stereotypes. Any child who does not fit into these gender categories is often bullied.