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Nov 29, 2011 · The psychology of women addresses topics such as gender stereotyping, physical development across the female life cycle, theoretical perspectives on women’s personalities and mental health, women’s health issues, sexuality, reproductive rights and reproductive health, verbal and nonverbal communications by and about women, women and ...
- Psychology
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- Gender and Self
The authors present their own model emphasizing that women’s...
- Psychology
- Androcentrism
- Alpha Bias
- Beta Bias
Androcentrism means being centred on, or dominated by males and can be conscious (the individual knows they are behaving this way) or unconscious. In the past most psychologists were male, and the theories they produced tended to represent a male view of the world. Hare-Mustin and Marecek (1988)argued for there being two types of gender bias: alpha...
Alpha bias refers to theories which exaggerate the differences between males and females. For example, in his psychoanalytic approach, Freud argued that because girls do not suffer the same oedipal conflict as boys, they do not identify with their mothers as strongly as boys identify with their fathers, so develop weaker superegos. The evolutionary...
Beta bias theories have traditionally ignored or minimised sex differences. These theories often assume that the findings from males can apply equally to females. For example, Kohlberg’s stage theory of moral development was based on extensive interviews that he conducted with boys aged 10-16. The same all male sample was then re-interviewed at int...
Jul 20, 2020 · Summary. “Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, Feminist Studies,” with the theme of the subordination of women, is marked by diverse and overlapping intellectual traditions and movements. We take a non-Western perspective of this diversity.
- Rekha Pande, Wen Liu, Hsunhui Tseng
- 2020
Psychology studies memory, motivation, learning, and cognition. Psychology studies social processes, for example by explaining how complex decisions can be influenced by groups. Psychology covers developmental processes, studying how thinking and behavior change throughout the life cycle.
Mar 3, 2019 · Ever wonder how some people always seem to beat the odds? It's not just luck. Anyone can learn how to turn possibility into probability.
Sep 11, 2013 · Factor analysis of the resulting Q sorts revealed six distinct definitions of love, interpreted as ‘attraction, passion & romance’, ‘unconditional love’, ‘sex & fun’, ‘friendship & spirituality’, ‘a permanent commitment’, and ‘separate people, separate lives’.
In this chapter, we explore what is known about mental imagery, in particular, about visual imagery. We review the findings that make it clear visual images do function in important ways as if they were mental pictures, and that the processes of imaging do resemble actual seeing.
