Definitions Flashcards
(19 cards)
Alpha bias
When differences between males and females are overstated
Beta bias
Difference between gender are understated or generalised
Androcentrism
Bias towards a male centered viewpoint typically as most research is published by men
Bias
Allowing pre-existing views/ effects cloud or affect Jung,ents or research
Ethnocentrism
A bias towards your own culture in which you judge other cultures by this subjective standard
Social sensitivity
The possibility for studies to produce results that could negativley impact groups of people
Determinism
The idea that behaviour is predetermined and that everything has a cause
Biological determinism
The idea that all human behaviour stems from genetic code in some way
Environmental determinism
All human behaviour is as a result of outside factors and forces
Psychic determinism
Behaviour is dictated as a result of unconscious mental processes
Hard determinism
.no free will
.all choice and behaviour is down to some pre existing factors
Soft determinism
Humans have limited choices but have free will to pick from within these
Holism
A type of learn in approach that suggests that to understand behaviour we must look at the human as a whole
Reductionist
To understand behaviour we must reduce it to its most simplistic parts
Interactionist approach
Behaviour has multiple causes and is too complex to simply be put into nature or untrue as these interact to cause behaviours
Ideographic
Learning approach that we should focus on unique experience of each individual in order to understand behaviour
NoMathetic approach
We should aim to establish general laws of behaviour that can be generalised and applied to all human behaviour
Bio reductionism
Breaking down behaviour to its simplist biological components
Enviornamental reductionism
Behaviour can be broken down. To its simplist stimuli
