Psychology as a science 0.0 / 5 ? Psychologyissues and debatesA2/A-levelEdexcel Created by: lilly557Created on: 29-04-14 10:46 What makes a study scientific? objectivity , reductionism , operationalisation , credability , reliability , empirical data and hypothesis data 1 of 35 What doe Hofling et al and Tajfel bother use in their methods of study? reductionisn and operationalism of variables 2 of 35 What does the social approach aim for? controlled and objective studies 3 of 35 What methodologies may have subjectivity ? Interviews and questionnaires 4 of 35 What data may ethnographic studies generate which could affect its scientific status? qualitative data e.g. meeus and Raajimakers 5 of 35 name two research methods used in the cognative approach which are scientific? brain scanning and neuroscience studies 6 of 35 what do godden and baddley and craik and tulvings study offer? controlled methods of study offers reductionism and operationalisim varaible 7 of 35 what does the cognative approach have access to? measurable biological information 8 of 35 What concepts are hard to measure in the cognative approach? cue dependance forgetting 9 of 35 What methodologies are hard to generalise ? Case studies because its hard to form a scientific body of knowledge 10 of 35 In the psychodynamic approach who used scientific experimentation? Adams et al looked into homophobia 11 of 35 Case studies were used alot by freud why is this a negative in terms of psychology as a science? they aren't generalisable or scentific because they require subjective interpretations and biased sample 12 of 35 What concept isn't objective or scientific? Psychodynamic approach 13 of 35 What is a positive of using lab experiments in the biological approach? they use scientific techniques such as PET Scans and MRI 14 of 35 name an advantage when testing your hypothesis? There are careful controls 15 of 35 What are biological studies generally seen as? measurable, credible and reliable as content is regarded as scientific 16 of 35 One disadvantage of biological approach ? Content is scientific however case studies such as money aren't 17 of 35 In the learning approach what did the experiments often consist of? animal studies in the lab study e.g. skinners and pavlov 18 of 35 Why is there reductionism? because behaviour is reduced to parts to make it more measurable 19 of 35 Whats the approaches aim? to discover general laws of behaviour and development which is scientific 20 of 35 Why is it hard to generalise animal studies? because the findings may not apply to humans making them less scientific 21 of 35 What theory did Karl Popper propose to determin whether a theory is scientifc? Hypothetico-deductiv model 22 of 35 What does a hypothesis have to be based on? Scientific theory 23 of 35 what is the hypothesis tested against? observations and experimentation using empirical testing 24 of 35 how is scienific knowledge built up? based on means of testing and amending the hypothesis repeating the cycle 25 of 35 What should happen if theory isn't proven? it must be rejected not amended 26 of 35 Why can this model be applied to psychology? because this cycle is what psychology is about ( amending , developing and testing theories) 27 of 35 How do you know if it's a psychological hypothesis ? you are testing by experimentation building knowledge in a scientific way ( cannot be done with case studies) 28 of 35 What is Falsification? is the process of trying to prove your hypothesis wrong ( if not its correct) 29 of 35 what did popper believe? that the difference between sciences and non-science is the ability to falsify 30 of 35 What is a paradigm ? the beliefs within a scientifc community about an agreed idea 31 of 35 Why is it hard to apply a pardigm to psychology? because there isn't one assumption of looking into psychology as isn't one area of knowledge 32 of 35 Why does science use reductionism? hard to operationalise variables that are too broad 33 of 35 How is a reductionism used? used in experiments to isolate behaviours through IV and DV to test them 34 of 35 Why do the IV and Dv need to be seprated and measured? to test the hypotheis so can be argued as a sciene as psychology mostly uses reductionist 35 of 35
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