Issues and Debates

Question 1

Gender bias

Answer 1

Feminist psychology (Eagly), Bias in research methods (Rosenthal, Eagly and Johnson)

Question 2

Culture bias

Answer 2

Indigenous psychologies, Bias in research methods (Smith and Bond/Henrich et al.), Negative consequences

Question 3

Determinism-free will

Answer 3

Negative consequences of determinism, Contradictory evidence for free will (Libet et al. Trevena and Miller)

Question 4

Nature-nurture

Answer 4

Nature and Nurture cannot be separated/Epigenetics (phenylketonuria), Contradictory evidence for both views (Maguire et al., Blakemore and Cooper)

Question 5

Reductionism-holism

Answer 5

Development of drug therapies, Non-human animals in theories of mental illness

Question 6

Idiographic-nomothetic

Answer 6

Idiographic: Focuses on the individual, Unable to make predictions

Nomothetic: More efficient

Question 7

Socially sensitive research

Answer 7

Inadequate ethical guidelines, Necessity of SSR