Issues and Debates Y13 Flashcards
Culture bias
Trigger words.
- To judge all
- Your own
- What does this do?
The tendency to judge all people in terms of your own cultural assumptions. This distorts or biases your judgement.
Ethnocentrism
- Ones own..
- Believe that this is..
Seeing the world only from one’s own cultural prespective, and believing that this one prespective is normal and correct.
Cultural Relativism
Trigger words:
- behaviour
- Understood
- Only if CC
Insists that behaviour can be properly understood only if the cultural context is taken into consideration
Alpha bias
Trigger words:
- Theory
- Different
Occurs when a theory assumes that cultural groups profoundly different
Beta bias
Trigger words:
- ignored
- the same
- Univeral
Occurs when real cultural differences are ignored or minimised, and all people are assumed to be the same, resulting in universal research designs and conclusions
Culture-bound syndrome
Trigger words:
- Signs and symptoms
- Restricted
- limited
- Psychosocial social
a collection of signs and symptoms that is restricted to a limited number of cultures due to certain psychosocial features
Determinism
- no place
-Explanaing - Predictable
I & Ex
Free will has no place in explaning behaviour, thereforce behaviour is predictable due to internal + external forces.
Hard determinism
Trigger words:
- free will
- Always
- out of our control
Free will is not possible as our behaviour is always caused by internal + external factors that are out of our control.
For example, someone with depresssion may have serious social problems and believe that their current behaviour in terms of coping with it cannot change they had fixed belief of deciding to do thise behaviour.
Soft determinism
- All
- conscious
All behaviour can also be determined by conscious and choices and our free will to a certain degree.
For example, a regular smoker who is a aware of their addiction also knows they have the choice to quit even though they may be surrouned by influnces that could affect their decision.
Biological determinism
- Human
- innate
refers to the idea that all human behaviour is innate and determined by genes.
Environmental determinism
- Behaviour
- forces
is the view that behaviour is determined or caused by forces outside the individual.
Psychic determinism
- Childhood experiences
- Innate drives
Claims that human behaviour is the result of childhood experiences and innate drives (ID, Ego and Superego), as in Freud’s model of psychological development.
Ethical implication of socially sensitive research
Socially sensitive research
- Social conseqeunce 4 who?
- Represent
Any research that might have a direct social consequence for the participants in the research or group that they may represent.
Sieber and Stanley (1988)
- Term
- ## Potential SC
Used the term social sensitivity to describe studies where there are potential social consequence for the participants or the group of people represented by the research