controversies

Question 1

4 points of non human animals

Answer 1

• BPS guidelines for psychologists working with animals
• comparative/ ethological psychology
• use as a therapeutic device
• speciesism

Question 2

4 points of scientific status

Answer 2

• benefits of being a science
• costs of being a science
• changing nature of ‘science’
• methodologies used by the various approaches

Question 3

4 points of sexism

Answer 3

• gender difference or gender bias
• heterosexism
• historical and social context
• invisibility of women in psychology

Question 4

4 points of cultural bias

Answer 4

• cross cultural studies
• difference or bias
• ethnocentrism
• historical and social context