Issues and debates key terms

What is Alpha bias?

• Theories that exaggerate differences between men and women

• Bias that occurs when treating men and women as identical

• The practice of placing male human beings at the center of one's view

• Behavior that shows favoritism toward one gender over the other.

Beta bias occurs when treating men and women as ______.

• Different

• Identical

• Superior

• Inferior

What does Androcentrism refer to?

• Favoritism toward one gender

• Placing male human beings at the center of one's view

• Ability to be applied to everyone

• Judging other cultures by one's own standards.

Gender bias is behavior that shows favoritism toward ______.

• One culture

• One gender

• All individuals

• One's own standards

Universality is the ability to be applied to ______.

• Men only

• Women only

• Everyone in every situation

• Specific cultures.

Cultural bias involves interpreting phenomena by ______.

• Universal standards

• One's own cultural standards

• Scientific methods

• Historical context

Cultural ________ is the practice of trying to understand a culture on its own terms.

Ethnocentrism involves judging other cultures by ______.

• Universal standards

• One's own cultural standards

• Scientific methods

• Historical context

Determinism is the view that an individual's behavior is shaped by ______.

• Free will

• Internal or external forces

• Cultural standards

• Historical context

Free will is the idea that each individual is free to make their own ______.

• Cultural standards

• Historical context

• Choice about their behavior

• Scientific methods.