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Cultural Bias |
The tendency to ignore the cultural differences and interpret information through the 'lens' of our own culture ie. in 1992, 64% of the worlds psychology researchers were American. |
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Ethnocentricism |
Where a study/observation can not be applied to the wider population as it only has data on one nationality/race. |
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Nature-nurture |
The debate of which characteristics and behaviours are adopted by their upbringing and environment they were exposed to, or whether they obtained those through genetics with it being hereditary. |
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Levels of explanation |
The idea there are different ways of viewing the same behaviour in psychology:PsychologicalPhysicalNeurochemical |
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Ethical issues |
privacy confidentiality informed consent deception |
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Reductionism |
a breakdown of complex phenomena into simple components - best understood in simpler levels of explanation |
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Holism |
Focuses on systems as a whole rather than on individual features |
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Determinism |
behaviour is caused by internal and external factors which means it can be predicted, no freewill |
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Freewill |
each individual has the power to make choices about their behaviour |
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Individual vs situational explanation |
Individual: suggests behaviour is due to persons own characteristics Situational: suggests behaviour is due to the environment or circumstance thr person is in |
