What is it called when masculine behaviour is considered to be the standard for which both men and women are judged?
Androcentrism
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What kind of gender bias exaggerates the difference between men and women
Alpha
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What kind of gender bias minimises or ignores the differences between men and women?
Beta
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Ethnocentrism is the belief that one's own customs/beliefs/values are...
normal or superior
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What culture is most research biased towards?
the Western world
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What is cultural relativism?
the principle that an individual's beliefs/values must be considered in terms of that person's own culture
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To follow the 'protection from harm' guideline, what is the maximum amount of mental/physical harm participants can be exposed to?
the same amount expected in everyday life
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Why might the 'protection from harm' guideline be broken?
to obtain valid results
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What is prior general consent?
possible participants are told about the use of deception, and only those who agree to such a practise are selected as participants
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What is presumptive consent?
a large random sample (of non participants) are introduced to the design of the study and use of deception, and if the majority agree they would give consent, this is presumed to be the belief of actual participants
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What is socially sensitive research?
studies in which there are potential consequences or implications, either directly for the participants or indirectly for the class of individuals represented
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Which researcher published the socially sensitive 'gay gene' research?
Harmer
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Which researcher published the socially sensitive 'killer babies' research?
Raine
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What is the interactionalist approach?
human behaviour can only be fully explained through an interaction between both nature and nurture
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What is the opposite of reductionism?
Holism
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What is soft determinism?
the assumption that our behaviour is determined to a certain extent, but there is an element of free will over whether or not this behaviour is realised
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What does an idiographic approach involve?
studying humans as individuals (case studies)
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What does a nomothetic approach involve?
identifying similarities between humans to be able to make predictions about behaviour
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What kind of gender bias exaggerates the difference between men and women
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Alpha
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What kind of gender bias minimises or ignores the differences between men and women?
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Card 4
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Ethnocentrism is the belief that one's own customs/beliefs/values are...
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