Issues And Debatez

Question 1

Study for cultural bias

Answer 1

Ainsworth’s Strange situation

Van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg
Collectivist cultures have more insecure resistant

Question 2

Two studies for nature vs nurture

Answer 2

Dias and Kessler
- Mice given an electric shock when exposed to a chemical found in perfumes
- The children of the mice became scared even though they were never conditioned - epigenetics

Nestadt
- 63% 31%
- Can be both nature and nurture because it is not 100% 50%

Question 3

What are the levels of explanations

Answer 3

1. Socio-cultural level
2. Psychological (cognitive) level
3. The Physical (behavioural) level
4. The biological level

Question 4

What is the nomothetic approach

Answer 4

Psychological research should look at the similarities between people to allow us to make generalisations and laws
Quantitative data

Question 5

What is the idiographic approach

Answer 5

Everyone is a unique individual so we should study humans as individuals a therefore general laws are impossible
Qualitative data

Question 6

Support for the nomothetic approach

Answer 6

Ainsworth’s strange situation

Was replicated in many countries which allowed Van Ijzendoorn and Kroonenberg to study the variations in attachment between cultures

Question 7

Support for the idiographic approach

Answer 7

Rogers developed a way of measuring personality which did not rely on a standardised test called Q-Sort
OCEAN
Openness to experience
Conscientiousness
Extraversion
Agreeableness
Neuroticism

Question 8

Support for free will

Answer 8

Roberts
Found that teenagers with an internal locus of control were at lower risk of depression