Kaplan FL 2 psych section #40

[akimhaneul]

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I don't understand how institutional discrimination can play into this question. Can someone please explain? Thanks!

 

[theonlytycrane]

The "institutional" part of the question stem refers to a bias that is not at home. Something like in the workplace, or at school. Something at home would be more of an individual discrimination. This narrows the choices down to (A) and (B). (B) is wrong because women only talked to men in the study, not other women.

 

[akimhaneul]

In the table, the first row "Men" represents men talking to women who respond with no emotions. In the workplace, men only thought 9% of the women were angry, but at home men thought 30% of the women were angry. At work, men were probably thinking women were just acting professionally. At home, they were probably wondering if bae was mad.

The second row "Women" represents women talking to men who respond with no emotions. The workplace percentages are 15% and 78% following the same trend as above.

The "institutional" part of the question stem refers to a bias that is not at home. Something like in the workplace, or at school. Something at home would be more of an individual discrimination. This narrows the choices down to (A) and (B). (B) is wrong because women only talked to men in the study, not other women.

Ok great thanks. But for that table, I thought when they said "men" and "women", they meant the people who responded with no emotions?

So for this next question, would the independent variables be the 1) gender of the people responding, 2) the setting of the conversation, and 3) the gender of the participants judging the emotions?

 

[theonlytycrane]

Yes you're right! Sorry about the confusion.

The two variables in the current setup are 1) gender of the participants (not known to people listening to the recordings) and 2) setting of the conversation. The third variable would be knowledge of the gender of the participants. Maybe with knowledge of gender, the people who listen to the scenario will interpret it differently.