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show Exaggeration of differences between genders or cultures, usually presented as real and enduring, devaluing one gender or culture  
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Beta bias   show
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Feminist psychology   show
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Indigenous psychologies   show
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Biological determinism   show
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Environmental determinism   show
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Psychic determinism   show
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Hard determinism   show
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Soft determinism   show
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Scientific determinism   show
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show This is the scientific paradigm that suggests everything has a cause - meaning free will is incompatible with science  
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show Moral accountability for behaviour  
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Nature   show
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Nurture   show
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Diathesis-stress model   show
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Holism   show
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Reductionism   show
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show Different ways of viewing the same phenomena in psychology, some more reductionist than others  
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show A form of reductionism which attempts to explain social and psychological phenomena at a lower biological level  
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show A way of viewing behaviour in terms of what is observable and in terms of learning  
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show The assumption that all other conditions and variables in a study are the same from one condition to the next  
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Gestalt psychology   show
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show Attempts to describe the nature of the individual as unique entities with own subjective experiences motivations and values, without generalising to all  
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show Aims to produce general laws of behaviour using large samples of quantitative data  
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Research question   show
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Socially sensitive research   show
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Conduct of research and treatment of participants   show
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show There may be pressure from the sponsors of a study to 'massage' the findings and come to unscientific conclusions  
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show The way in which findings could be exploited by others for unethical purposes, such as to support racist or sexist prejudice  
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show Where psychologists only publish research that supports their aims, and hide away any negative results, creating a biased perception  
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