Issues and debates Flashcards
Chodorow
mothers and daughters have a better connectedness than mother and sons
Maccoby and Jacklin
girls have better verbal skills and boys have better spatial skills
murphy
most lecturers are men
Nicolson
male researchers expect women to be irrational
henrich
reviewed studies and found 68% were from USA, 98% were industrialised countries
WEIRD
Westernised, educated people from Industrialised, rich democracies
Berry
etic approach is looking at a culture and tries to describe it as universal
Takano and Osaka
14 out of 15 studies comparing USA to Japan found no evidence of culturalistic and individualistic societies
Cohen
New methodologies are developed
Gould
Intelligence testing has lead to prejudices
Libet
instructed people to make wrist movements, their unconscious brain activity came 1/2 a second faster than their verbal response
dsescartes
all characteristics are innate
Clean slate (locke)
Tabula rasa
Learner
different levels of the environment (e.g prenatal)
Rhee and Waldman
meta analysis and found genetic influences accounted for 41% of variance in aggression
Plomin
we can create our own nurture to suit our nature
susser and lin
women who got pregnant during the famine had low birth weight rates. these children were also more likely to have schizophrenia
nestadt
OCD heritiability is 0.76
Gestalt
whole is greater than its sum of its parts
Parismony
all phenomena should be explained in the simplest form
seber and stanley
social sensitivity
Kitzinger and coyle
research often has heterosexual bias
Ethical implication stages
Researcher question,
dealing with participants, the way findings are used
