PSYC 3480 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Mental Rotation, Stereotype Threat, Faraday Effect
10 Apr 2013
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A variety of biases can have a powerful effect when psychologists conduct research about either women or gender comparisons, we need to be cautious about interpreting the results of the research: biased samples can influence results. Almost all research on cognitive abilities focuses on college students, so we know almost nothing about adults who have not attended college. Most of the research examines white men and women in the united states and canada: people"s expectations can biased the results. 3) tend to find gender differences, the participants also tend to have expectations. If we measure some ability, and then we create one graph for the scores of males and we add another graph for the scores of females,the two distributions of the score will overlap substantially. A frequency distribution tells us how many people in a sample receive each score. Distributions of female and male characteristics rarely show the large separation and the small overlap.
