Question

Cognitive Psychology
Chapter 9

Here are 2 discussions regarding the chapter . Write your opinion on each one.

1. After analyzing the research in the book, I went ahead and tested the results in my work. I work in a shipping department were the amount of women and men are the same. My observations fell within the stereotype because women talked more than men by keeping a prolonged conversation. They usually tend to do a short statement and go into detail ending with a whole different topic. I saw that there was a lot of interrupting when women were talking since they would ask work questions all of the sudden and go back to the conversation topic after that. On the other hand, men would only make small statements or questions and retrieve from the conversation once they got an answer. Moreover, I observed the women at work and myself use a lot of tag questions.

2.) During my daily conversations with my friends and after paying attention to conversations around me I observed that women spend more time talking in conversations than men do. Almost all my anecdotal observations matched the research in the book. I did see that woman do tend to be politer when conversating. I also noticed that women have a tendency of adding more tag questions and hedges when conversating. Women would tend to interrupt more in the conversations compared to men. The investigation done in the book observed the opposite, men would interrupt more than women. My experience with this observation is interesting because I was able to compare my observation compared to the research in the book.

Answer 1

1 after reading the discussion it is clear that this individual has created a notion against women based on his experience and research he read in the book since there must be some research bias in his observation also he must have form an impression about the women based the primary knowledge he get from the research which further leads to stereotyping the women as more talkative than men in work. Although the research findings may be correct but we cannot assume that all the women’s fall under this category.

2 the second discussion states that women tend to be more politer and spend more time in talking in conservation is somewhat biased because first of all he read that in book and second he made his impression based on knowledge he gathered from talking with friends and after that he pays attention to it which is somehow shows that his attitude is formed on basis of knowledge he get from surroundings.