Explain and Provide an Example of How the Predominance of Early

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Essay

Explain and provide an example of how the predominance of early Caucasian male psychologists inadvertently introduced a narrowness into psychological theory; provide two examples of other types of bias in research besides gender and the effects of these biases; and describe how these problems of bias can be solved.

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