Debates and Methodological issues Flashcards

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Define reliability

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Reliability relates to how consistent a study is - does it have a large sample, a standardised procedure, a high level of control and is it replicable

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Define validity

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Validity relates to how true the study is in relation to whether it measures what it intends and whether it is true to life

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Define ethics

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The extent to which psychological research follows the regulations by the BPS to follow safe and moral principles

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Define ethnocentrism

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The extent to which findings of research apply to people from varying cultures

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Define usefulness

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Whether psychological research needs to be useful in a practical sense or whether it is sufficient for it to be intrinsically useful (ie whether it has practical applications)

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Outline the reductions/holism debate

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Reductionism is the belief that behaviour can be explained by only looking at one component of the behaviour while holism looks into multiple components and how they all affect behaviour

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Outline the determinism/freewill debate

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Determinism states that how we behave is beyond our control and can be influenced by both biological and environmental factors whereas free will suggests we have total control over how we behave

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Describe the key features of psychology as a science

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Research can be considered scientific if it is objective, replicable and falsifiable

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Outline the nature/nurture debate

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Whether the ways in which we behave are as a result of our biology (genetics, hormones etc) or as a result of how we have been brought up

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Describe the positions of the individual/situational debates

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Whether actions and behaviour are due to the aspects or the external environment or due to the internal characteristics of a person

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When will research be considered socially sensitive

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If it has wider negative implications for participants or for ‘type’ of individuals represented by research

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What is sampling bias?

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When the researcher influences the sample in order to portray a certain outcome or if the sample if imbalanced

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