Issues and Debates topic revision

Question 1

Any underlying characteristic of human beings that is capable of being applied to all, despite difference in experience

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Universality

Question 2

In the 1920s and 30s, US states enacted legislation to try to control numbers of the...

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Feeble-minded

Question 3

An example of an interactionist approach to the nature-nurture debate is...

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The diathesis-stress model

Question 4

Which of the following is NOT a form of determinism?

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Humanistic

Question 5

The idea that social norms and values can only be understood within that society is...

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Cultural relativism

Question 6

According to the hierarchy of science, which of these is the most reductionist?

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Physics

Question 7

Socially sensitive areas of research are sometimes referred to as...

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Taboo topics

Question 8

Stimulus-response learning is a good example of...

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Environmental reductionism

Question 9

Which of the following would NOT be associated with the nomothetic approach?

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Humanistic approach

Question 10

An alternative term for determinism is fatalism

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True

Question 11

Which of the following refers to ignoring or minimising differences between the sexes?

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Beta bias

Question 12

Which form of determinism is most associated with Freud?

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Psychic

Question 13

Which of the following is the best example of the idiographic approach?

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Freud's study of Little Hans

Question 14

Which of the following was not a group deemed to be 'feeble minded' in some US states in the 1920s?

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The elderly

Question 15

The nature-nurture debate is sometimes referred to as...

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Heredity vs environment

Question 16

Which form of determinism was proposed by William James and underpins the cognitive approach?

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Soft determinism

Question 17

The idiographic approach is likely to produce...

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Qualitative data

Question 18

In the 1950s, advertising companies tried to influence consumers using...

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Subliminal messages

Question 19

'The whole is greater than the sum of its parts' is a quote associated with....

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Gestalt psychologists

Question 20

'When normal behaviour is judged from a male standard' is a definition of...

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Andocentrism

Question 21

Cyril Burt's research led to the introduction of the...

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Question 22

Presenting gender differences as fixed in nature and inevitable is known as...

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Essentialism

Question 23

Idiographic is derived from the Greek 'idios' which means...

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Private and personal

Question 24

Which legal principle recognises that perpetrators of crime may not always be acting under their own free will?

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Diminished responsibility

Question 25

A belief in the superiority of one's own cultural group is best described as...

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Ethnocentrism

Question 26

Which of the following approaches advocates a holistic view of human behaviour?

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Humanistic approach

Question 27

Which of the following would be most closely associated with the nomothetic approach?

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Experiments

Question 28

Who accused Kohlberg of gender bias in his moral development theory?

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Gilligan

Question 29

Free will is a principle at the heart of whose approach to therapy?

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Rogers

Question 30

Which of the following would be associated with the idiographic approach?

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Describing unusual individuals in detail

Question 31

Which of the following would be most closely associated with a nativist approach in the nature-nurture debate?

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Biological approach

Question 32

Critics have argued that Ainsworth's ideal attachment type is an example of...

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Imposed etic

Question 33

Which of these is not a concern of socially sensitive research identified by Seiber and Stanley?

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The scale of the research e.g. sample size

Question 34

Theories that suggest real and enduring differences between men and women may be displaying...

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Alpha bias

Question 35

Brain fog is an example of...

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Culture-bound syndrome

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