Gender and culture

Psychology

A Level

AQA

5m 50s
In this podcast we will be discussing issues of both gender and culture in psychology. With gender we will especially be looking at the concepts of androcentrism, alpha and beta bias, while with culture we will focus our attention on ethnocentrism, cultural relativism and cultural bias. We’ll also discuss universality in the context of both gender and culture’

Tutors:

Jean Marc Lawton

ISSUES & DEBATES

Gender & culture in psychology - task

  • Listen to the following podcast in pairs

 

  • One of each pair should compose four questions that they would ask the speakers about the issue of gender in psychology

 

  • The other person in the pair should compose four questions that they would ask the speakers about the issue of culture in psychology

 

  • Read the questions out aloud, one by one, to each other, with the other person in the pair replying using information contained within the podcast

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