20 Questions

Question 1

What is the term for the idea that conclusions can be drawn to everybody?

Answer 1

Universality

Question 2

What type of bias exaggerates the difference between the genders?

Answer 2

Alpha

Question 3

What type of bias ignores the differences between the genders?

Answer 3

Beta

Question 4

Who argued that women have a weaker superego than men?

Answer 4

Freud

Question 5

Who argued that men and women get jealous of different aspects?

Answer 5

Buss

Question 6

What is the term for a belief in the superiority of one’s own culture?

Answer 6

Ethnocentrism

Question 7

What is the term for the idea that norms can only be meaningful in the context in which they were studied?

Answer 7

Cultural relativism

Question 8

Which type of cultures are said to place emphasis on the good of the group?

Answer 8

Collectivist

Question 9

Which type of cultures are said to value freedom and independence?

Answer 9

Individualistic

Question 10

Who found that 14 out of 15 studies found no evidence of a distinction between individualism and collectivism in Japan and the USA?

Answer 10

Takano

Question 11

What is the term that refers to the depth of theory starting at the least reductionist (eg socio-cultural) and ends at the most reductionist (eg neurochemistry)?

Answer 11

Levels of explaining psychology

Question 12

What are the two types of reductionism?

Answer 12

Biological
Environmental

Question 13

What type of determinism argues that childhood trauma accounts for behaviour?

Answer 13

Psychic

Question 14

What type of determinism might argue that conditioning accounts for behaviour?

Answer 14

Environmental

Question 15

What type of determinism might argue that genes account for behaviour?

Answer 15

Biological

Question 16

Which approach argues that we should study the individual, with qualitative methods, and not aim for any laws of behaviour?

Answer 16

Idiographic

Question 17

Which approach argues that we should study groups, with quantitative methods, and aim to find laws of behaviour?

Answer 17

Nomothetic

Question 18

Which debate refers to the relative importance of hereditary versus environmental factors?

Answer 18

Nature VS Nurture

Question 19

What do you call research into ‘taboo’ or sensitive areas?

Answer 19

Socially sensitive

Question 20

What is the term for the impact that psychology may have?

Answer 20

Ethical implications