Psychology A-Level
androcentrism
What androcentrism means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Male behaviour taken as the norm, so female behaviour is judged abnormal or deficient, as in the medicalising of premenstrual syndrome.
The consequence of taking male behaviour as the standard, and it is not a third kind of bias.
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