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psychology - issues and debates

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Gender in Psychology
- Universality and bias - Gender bias including androcentrism, alpha bias, and beta bias
11  cards
Culture in Psychology
- Universality and bias - Cultural bias including ethnocentrism and cultural relativism
17  cards
Free Will and Determinism
- Hard determinism and soft determinism - Biological, environmental, and psychic determinism - The scientific emphasis on causal explanations
14  cards
The Nature vs Nurture Debate
- The relative importance of heredity and environment in determining behaviour - The interactionist approach
13  cards
Holism and Reductionism
- Levels of explanation in Psychology - Biological reductionism and environmental (stimulus-response) reductionism
17  cards
Ideographic and Nomothetic
- Idiographic and Nomothetic approaches to psychological investigation
10  cards
Ethical Implications
- Ethical Implications of research studies - Ethical implications of theory - Social sensitivity
14  cards

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