Issues and debates

Question 1

Chodorow

Answer 1

mothers and daughters have a better connectedness than mother and sons

Question 2

Maccoby and Jacklin

Answer 2

girls have better verbal skills and boys have better spatial skills

Question 3

murphy

Answer 3

most lecturers are men

Question 4

Nicolson

Answer 4

male researchers expect women to be irrational

Question 5

henrich

Answer 5

reviewed studies and found 68% were from USA, 98% were industrialised countries

Question 6

WEIRD

Answer 6

Westernised, educated people from Industrialised, rich democracies

Question 7

Berry

Answer 7

etic approach is looking at a culture and tries to describe it as universal

Question 8

Takano and Osaka

Answer 8

14 out of 15 studies comparing USA to Japan found no evidence of culturalistic and individualistic societies

Question 9

Cohen

Answer 9

New methodologies are developed

Question 10

Gould

Answer 10

Intelligence testing has lead to prejudices

Question 11

Libet

Answer 11

instructed people to make wrist movements, their unconscious brain activity came 1/2 a second faster than their verbal response

Question 12

dsescartes

Answer 12

all characteristics are innate

Question 13

Clean slate (locke)

Answer 13

Tabula rasa

Question 14

Learner

Answer 14

different levels of the environment (e.g prenatal)

Question 15

Rhee and Waldman

Answer 15

meta analysis and found genetic influences accounted for 41% of variance in aggression

Question 16

Plomin

Answer 16

we can create our own nurture to suit our nature

Question 17

susser and lin

Answer 17

women who got pregnant during the famine had low birth weight rates. these children were also more likely to have schizophrenia

Question 18

nestadt

Answer 18

OCD heritiability is 0.76

Question 19

Gestalt

Answer 19

whole is greater than its sum of its parts

Question 20

Parismony

Answer 20

all phenomena should be explained in the simplest form

Question 21

seber and stanley

Answer 21

social sensitivity

Question 22

Kitzinger and coyle

Answer 22

research often has heterosexual bias

Question 23

Ethical implication stages

Answer 23

Researcher question,
dealing with participants, the way findings are used