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41 Cards in this Set
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'When normal behaviour is judged from a male standard' is a definition of... |
Androcentrism |
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Ignoring or minimises the differences between the sexes... |
Beta bias |
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Who accused Kohlberg of gender bias in his moral development theory? |
Gilligan |
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Presenting gender differences as fixed in nature and inevitable is known as... |
Essentialism |
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Theories that suggest real and enduring differences between men and women may be... |
Alpha bias |
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'Any underlying characteristic of human beings that is capable of being applied to all, despite differences of experience and upbringing' is a description of... |
Universality |
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The idea that social norms and values can only be understood within that society is... |
Cultural relativism |
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Critics have argued that Ainsworth's ideal attachment type is an example of... |
Imposed etic |
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A belief in the superiority of one's own cultural group is best described as... |
Ethnocentrism |
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Takano and Osaka (1999) found no evidence of... |
The distinction between collectivism and individualism |
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The psychologist that drew distinction between emic and etic approaches is called... |
Berry |
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Brain fag is an example of... |
Culture-bound disorder |
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Which is not a form of determinism? ▪Biological ▪Humanistic ▪Environmental ▪Psychic |
Humanistic |
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Which form of determinism was proposed by William James and underpins the cognitive approach? |
Soft determinism |
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Which legal principle recognises that perpetrators of crime may not always be acting under their own free will? |
Diminished responsibility |
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Free will is a principle at the heart of whose approach to therapy? |
Carl Rogers |
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Which form of determinism is most associated with Sigmund Freud? |
Psychic |
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An alternative term for determinism... |
Fatalism |
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The nurture-nature debate is sometimes referred to as... |
Heredity vs Environment |
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Which of the following would most closely associated with a nativist approach in the nature-nurture debate? ▪Cognitive approach ▪Behaviourist approach ▪Social Learning approach ▪Biological approach |
Biological approach |
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Which of the following is not part of Scarr and McCartney's gene-environment interaction model? ▪Provocative interaction ▪Passive interaction ▪Evocative interaction ▪Active interaction |
Provocative interaction |
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The philosopher John Locke was best described as... |
An empiricist |
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Which of the following is not one of Lerner's levels of the environment? ▪Child's genetic make up ▪Mother's physical state during pregnancy ▪Social conditions of the child's upbringing ▪Historical content the child is part of |
Child's genetic make up |
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'The whole is greater than the sum of its parts' is a quote associated with... |
Gestalt psychologists |
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Stimulus-response learning is a good example of... |
Environmental reductionism |
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Which of the following explanations of OCD would illustrate the neurochemical level? ▪Most people would regard behaviour as odd or irrational ▪The experience of obsessive thoughts ▪Overactivity of the basal ganglia ▪Underproduction of serotonin |
Underproduction of serotonin |
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According to the hierarchy of science, which is the most reductionist? |
Physics |
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Reductionism is based on the scientific principle of... |
Parsimony |
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Which of the following advocates a holistic view of human behaviour? ▪Cognitive approach ▪Behaviourist approach ▪Biological approach ▪Humanistic approach |
Humanistic |
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Which of the following would be the most closely associated with the nomothetic approach? ▪Experiments ▪ Case studies ▪Unstructured interviews ▪Qualitative data |
Experiments |
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Which of the following would not be associated with the nomothetic approach? ▪Humanistic approach ▪Biological approach ▪Behaviourist approach ▪Cognitive approach |
Humanistic approach |
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Which of the following would be associated with the idiographic approach? ▪Classifying people into groups ▪Establishing principles of behaviour in general ▪Describing unusual individuals in detail ▪Establishing dimensions along which people can be compared |
Describing unusual individuals in detail |
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Which of the following is the best example of the idiographic approach? ▪Miller's law of STM ▪Freud's study of Little Hans ▪Behaviourist laws of learning ▪IS testing |
Freud's study of Little Hans |
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The idiographic approach is likely to produce... |
Qualitative data |
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Idiographic is derived from the Greek word 'idios' which means... |
Private and personal |
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Which of the following is not a concern of socially sensitive research identified by Sieber and Stanley? ▪Implications ▪Public policy ▪Validity ▪The scale of the research, e.g. sample size |
The scale of the research |
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Cyril Burt's research led to the introduction of the.... |
11+ exam |
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In the 1920's and 30's, US states enacted legislation to try to control numbers of the... |
Feeble-minded |
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Which of the following was not a group deemed to be 'feeble-minded' in some US states in the q920s? |
The elderly |
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In the 1950s, advertising companies tried to influence consumers using... |
Subliminal messages |
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Socially sensitive areas of research are sometimes referred to as... |
Taboo topics |
