Psychology: Key Terms: Issues & Debates

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• 2. Theories that ignore or minimise sex differences. These theories often assume that the findings from studies using males can apply equally to females. (4, 4)
• 3. Science is heavily determinstic in its search for casual relationships (explanations) as it seeks to discover whether X causes Y, or whether the independant variable causes changes in the dependant variable (6, 12)
• 4. Theories that exaggerate the differences between males and females (5, 4)