Issues and Debates

Examples of these issues and debates in psychology

  • Idiographic - humanist approach 
  • Nomothetic - any approach that generates laws (biological, psychodynamic...)
  • Cultural bias - the Strange Situation (imposed etic)
  • Gender bias - Milgram and Zimbardo's research 
  • Nauture - biological approach 
  • Nurture - Learning theories (behaviourism and social learning theory)
  • Holism - humanistic approach 
  • Environmental Reductionism - Learning theories
  • Biological Reductionism - Biological approach 
  • *Experimental Reductionism 
  • Biological Determinism - genetics in OCD
  • Psychic Determinism - psychosexual stages in psychodynamic approach 
  • *Environmental Determinism -
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  • Issues and Debates
    • Cultural Bias
      • Ethnocentrism -> being judged in terms of our own ethnic or cultural groups
      • Imposed etic
      • Imposed emic
      • Cultural relativism
    • Gender Bias
      • androcentrism
      • Difference between the sexes OVER exaggerated
        • Alpha Bias
      • Difference between the sexes UNDER exaggerated
        • Beta Bias
    • Nature vs Nurture
      • Explanations for behaviour are innate(from biological factors) - Nature
      • Explanation from environment - Nurture
      • Interactional explanations - biosocial approaches
    • Free will vs Determinism
      • Biological determinism
      • Psychic determinism
      • Environmental determinism
      • Free will
    • Idiographic vs Nomothetic
      • General laws of behaviour
        • Nomothetic
      • Individual emphasis/ uniqueness
      • Qualitative Data
        • Idiographic
          • Individual emphasis/ uniqueness
    • Reductionism vs Holism
      • environmental Reductionism
      • Biological Reductionism
      • Experimental Reductionism
      • Holism - everything is viewed together (no single focus)
    • Ethical Issues + Social Sensitivity
      • Privacy
      • Confidentiality
      • Risk to benefit ratio
      • Informed consent
      • Does the research have direct social implications for the ppts, or the group they represent?
  • Difference between the sexes OVER exaggerated
    • Alpha Bias

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