Deabates

Question 1

Psychology as a science

Answer 1

Something is to be regarded assigns, if it will gather evidence that is objective and quantitative the experiment must be replicable and have a falsifiable hypothesis

Question 2

What is a falsifiable hypothesis?

Answer 2

Something that can be proved wrong

Question 3

Usefulness of research

Answer 3

Add to knowledge that can be applied to real life situations and that is going to be useful. If the research has been poorly conducted, there will be no real relevant to the real world.

Question 4

Free will

Answer 4

Humans are entirely free to act as they choose and bear responsibility for the outcome of their behaviour

Question 5

Hard determinism

Answer 5

human behaviour is seen as a consequence of biological and other factors beyond our personal control

Question 6

Soft determinism

Answer 6

Humans have a choice and can exercise three well how far it is accepted that this freewheel is often determined by other factors 

Question 7

Reductionism

Answer 7

Attempts to break down behaviour into single factors, such as our genes or an aspect of our environment

Question 8

Holism

Answer 8

Sees behaviour as too complex to be reduced to a single explanationS

Question 9

Individual

Answer 9

Something that about the individual, that is the cause of behaviour, such as personality or genes

Question 10

Situational

Answer 10

Circumstances around the individual, for example, that group membership, all their environmental context

Question 11

Interactional

Answer 11

Would argue that both individual and a situational factors play a role in behaviour