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Issues and Debates
Psych AQA
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Define universality | findings apply to everyone equally such as the six basic emotions |
| Define ethnocentrism | Inappropriate generalisation of fundings on other cultures without researching them such as asch and milgram |
| Define cultural relativism | belief you have to consider behaviour in the context its in - cultural norms/values vary and no culture is superior |
| Define androcentrism | male bias - focus only on male ppts |
| Define alphabias | exaggeration of sex differences - often devalues one sex |
| Define betabias | no difference between sexes |
| Define emic research | aims to study behaviour in one culture and not extrapolate |
| Define etic research | aims to find universal behaviours or cultural differences |
| Define Imposed etic | behaviour assumed to apply to other cultures without research - inappropriate application |
| What are the six basic emotions? | - Happiness - Sadness - Fear - Disgust - Anger - Surprise |
| Define cultural bias | interpreting and judging behaviours and psychological characteristics of one culture by holding them to the standards of your own culture |
| Examples of cultural bias/imposed etic | ainsworth - american attachment milgram - american obedience beck and ellis - american norms for depression |
| List 3 factors which cause gender bias | Androcentrism Alphabias History - women not deemed worthy of research |
| Examples of gender bias | freud believed anxiety was only suffered by women evolutionary theories suggested promiscuity is normal in M abnormal in F fight or flight research done on men so female tend or befriend approach not accounted for |
| Define free will | personal agency to make any decision you want without influence or manipulation |
| Define determinism | behaviour caused by something - very little control over it |
| What is the name for a variable that controls behaviour | Determinants |
| Name the five types of determinism | hard soft environmental biological psychic |
| What is hard determinism | behaviour completely decided by factors outside of out control - no free will - also called fatalistm |
| What is soft determinism | middle ground of the debate - small amount of free will |
| What is biological determinism | behaviour the result of internal body processes - genes, brian physiology, biochemistry |
| What is environmental determinism | behaviour is caused by physical environment - social influence etc |
| What is psychic determinism | when unconscious forces dictate and drive behaviour - id, ego, superego, unresolved conflicts from oedipus/electra |
| Explain why determinism is |
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