Psychology A-Level
beta bias
What beta bias means in Psychology A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Minimises or ignores differences, as in Asch's 123 male students and Milgram's 40 American men, whose findings were generalised to everyone.
Real differences ignored or minimised, so findings from male samples are generalised to women, as in the fight-or-flight research programme.
Topics that use beta bias
- Issues and debates in Psychology (AQA A-Level)
- Issues and options in Psychology (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- alpha bias
- androcentrism
- biological reductionism
- free will
- generalisation
- heritability and concordance rates
- idiographic approach
- Imposed etic
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