ISSUES and DEBATES
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- Created on: 03-02-20 20:58
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- ISSUES AND DEBATES
- Gender bias
- alpha bias- exaggerates differences
- frauds theory suggest females are envious of males
- beta bias - minimises gender differences
- androcentrism- male bias, male behaviour is seen as the 'norm'
- alpha bias- exaggerates differences
- cultural bias
- occurs when researcher assumes their now culture is the norm
- Ainsworth, when the strange situations as done with other cultures, findings were different
- cultural relativism , the belief that cultural norms come from a certain culture
- e.g. suggesting thane culture a certain behaviour may be acceptable but to another completly unacceptable
- occurs when researcher assumes their now culture is the norm
- free will and determinism
- free will is the idea that we have choice over our own actionsl
- since psychology tries to examine the cause of behaviour
- VS
- determinism , is the idea that behaviours and action are determined by external and internal factors
- environmentalbiological psychic cognitive humanistic
- determinism , is the idea that behaviours and action are determined by external and internal factors
- determinism , is the idea that behaviours and action are determined by external and internal factors
- environmentalbiological psychic cognitive humanistic
- free will is the idea that we have choice over our own actionsl
- Nature-Nurture
- Nature- debate whether behaviour is a product of our genes
- interactionalist approach see the behaviour as being influenced by nature and nurture
- nurture- whether behaviour is a product of environmental influences
- behaviours are influenced through inheritance and genes its the interaction in the environment that causes the behaviour
- interactionalist approach see the behaviour as being influenced by nature and nurture
- nurture- whether behaviour is a product of environmental influences
- Nature- debate whether behaviour is a product of our genes
- reductionism and holism
- reductionism-idea that we can explain behaviour in biological and environmental ideas
- Biological reductionism-behaviour solely due to genetics, biochem and structure of the brain
- environmentareductionism- simplifies behaviour to a resole of a stimulus
- Holism this side looks at a person as a whole
- looks at the social context such as family culture ad bill factors
- could be seen as interactionalisas it suggests all factors have equal importance
- reductionism-idea that we can explain behaviour in biological and environmental ideas
- idiographic and nomothetic
- ideographiapprroach focuses on an individual and gets info in depth
- fraud uses case studies such as little Hans but also psychosexual their takes nomotheticapproach
- nomothetic investigates studies in large number of people which general laws are formulated
- biological approach - as it conducts research in a lab experimen for cause and effect
- ideographiapprroach focuses on an individual and gets info in depth
- Gender bias
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