Issues And Debates specification

Question 1

Gender bias (issues)

Answer 1

Universality and bias. Androcentrism. Alpha and Beta bias.

Question 2

Culture Bias (issues)

Answer 2

Universality and bias. Ethnocentrism (including emic/etic) and cultural relativism.

Question 3

Ethical implications (issues)

Answer 3

Research study’s/ theory’s (milgram, nazis/bowlby maternal deprivation ), including reference to social sensitivity (Milgram, used to make obey/Sleber and Stanley 4 aspects of social sensitivity /Cyril Burt 11+ exam)

Question 4

Free will and determinism (debates)

Answer 4

Hard determinism and soft determinism; biological, environmental and psychic determinism. The scientific emphasis on causal explanations.

Question 5

Nature vs Nurture (debate)

Answer 5

The relative importance of hereditary (nature) and environment (nurture) in determining behaviour; the interactionist approach (Diathesis stress)

Question 6

Holism and reductionism (debate)

Answer 6

Levels of explanation in psychology. Biological reductionism and environmental (stimulus-response) reductionism.

Question 7

Idiographic and nomothetic

Answer 7

The idiographic approach, the nomothetic approach, (then the overlap)