Human Diversity

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Human Diversity

• Why learn about human diversity?
• Psychologists have begun to examine assumptions
  based on gender, race, and culture.

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Gender

• Gender stereotypes
• Feminist psychology
• Sexual orientation

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Race and Ethnicity

• Most ethnic minorities are still underrepresented
  within the field.
• Psychologists are working to uncover and overcome
  biases in psychological research.

4
Culture

• Modes of thinking, acting, and communicating
  about how the world works and why people behave
  as they do
• Culture influences
• Cross-cultural research

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Research Methods
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Naturalistic Observation

• Observing and recording the behavior of humans or
  animals in their natural environment
• Advantages?
• Disadvantages?

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Case Studies

• Detailed description of a single individual or
  just a few individuals.
• Advantages?
• Disadvantages?

8
Surveys

• Questionnaires or interviews are administered to
  a selected group of people.
• Advantages?
• Disadvantages?

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Correlational Research

• To find a relationship between two or more
  variables
• Advantages?
• Disadvantages?

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Experimental Method

• An investigator deliberately manipulates some
  variable and measures the effects on subsequent
  behavior.
• Independent variable
• Dependent variable
• Experimental group
• Treatment group
• Advantages?
• Disadvantages?

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Sampling

• Sample
• Random sample
• Representative sample