http://www.learnpsychology.net/ LearnPsychology.net: term of the day Slapes.com Mark Holah & Jamie Davies <www@slapes.com> http://www.learnpsychology.net/g/?g=63 Most of the well known psychological research reported from before the 1980s was carried out in American universities using White, middle-class undergraduate students who are hardly representative of anybody other than American, White, middle-class undergraduate students.&nbsp; Therefore we have to question the findings of studies which attempt to generalise their findings to the population as a whole.