PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Borderline Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder
Document Summary
Recognized as stereotypes: a generalization about a group of people, in which attributes are assumed to be true of all members of the group regardless of the actual variation among the group members. Women are believed to be more concerned with nurturing. Men are more concerned with actions and accomplishments: traditional masculine occupations: Auto mechanic, carpenter, jet pilot: traditional feminine occupations: These beliefs suggest that women are more concerned with other people and social groups. Suggests that men focus on the individual: feelings on self-protection and self-assertion. Effect-size: tells us the impact or importance of a variable to the overall observed effect, can calculate effect size within an individual experiment, estimated using statistic d: D: females score higher s: average standard deviation of the male and female scores: when effect size is small: huge overlap in the distributions of the scores of men and women. 0. 2 : too small to be noticeable in every day life.
