Issues and debates Flashcards
Alpha bias
Differences between males and females are overstated
Androcentrism
Bias towards a male centred view
Beta bias
Differences between males and females are understated
Bio determinism
Idea all human behaviour stems from genetic code
Bio reductionism
Idea that behaviour can be reduced to simple physical components like nerves and ions
Cultural relativism
View a person’s culture from the perspective of someone from within that culture
Determinism
Idea that things are predetermined and everything has a cause
Environmental determinism
Idea that all human behaviour is a result of outside forces
Environmental reductionism
Idea that al behaviour can be reduced to responses and stimuli
Ethnocentrism
Bias towards your own culture and judge other cultures by that standard
Hard determinism
Free will is non existent and all behaviour is due to pre existent causes
Hollism
Must look at humans as a whole
Idiographic approach
Focus on the unique experiences of each individual
Interactionist approach
Human behaviour has multiple causes that stem from genes to social and cultural systems
Nomothetic approach
Need to establish general laws that can be applied to all to understand behaviour
Psychic determinism
All human behaviour is a result of unconscious mental processes
Reductionism
To understand behaviour we must reduce it to its simplest parts
Social sensitivity
Possibility for studies to have results that negatively impact some groups of people
Soft determinism
Idea that all the choices we pick are limited and predetermined but humans have free will to pick from the predetermined choices
Etic research
when research based on one culture is generalised and applied to all cultures.
Emic research
based on studying a specific culture
