Issues & Debates

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trying to break down something complex into a simple explanations
Reductionism
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influence of environmental factors e.g. home, school & friends and the extent to which our behaviour is determined by our genes we inherit
Nuture vs Nature
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Individuals take responsibility for their actions and have the ability to choose their actions andbehaviour is fully caused by factors outside the person’s control
Free Will vs Determinism
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deception, privacy, psychological & physical harm are examples of...
Ethical issues
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Occurs when a researcher assumes that their own culturally specific practices
Ethnocentrism
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mainly concerned with studying what we share with others
Nomothetic
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Psychologists interested in this aspect of experience want to discover what makes each of us unique
idiographic
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aking male thinking/behaviour as normal, regarding female thinking/behaviour as deviant, inferior, abnormal
Androcentrism
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influence of environmental factors e.g. home, school & friends and the extent to which our behaviour is determined by our genes we inherit

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Nuture vs Nature

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Individuals take responsibility for their actions and have the ability to choose their actions andbehaviour is fully caused by factors outside the person’s control

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deception, privacy, psychological & physical harm are examples of...

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Occurs when a researcher assumes that their own culturally specific practices

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