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What is gender?

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Gender is more than our biological sex, it is also expressed through socially and culturally learnt norms.

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Define Androcentric

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Androcentric describes research centred on a male demographic of participants or perspective.

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Define gynocentric

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Gynocentric is research centred on a female demographic of participants or perspective

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What determines socialisation in terms of gender?

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Socialisation from early infancy is underpinned by social norms, values and expectations of behaviour that are gender specific.

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What is Alpha bias?

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  1. Alpha bias refers to theories which exaggerate the differences between males and females, resulting in gender stereotypes being over-emphasised.
  2. Research that finds gender differences is more likely to be published than research that does not.
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What is the Beta bias?

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Beta bias theories have traditionally ignored or minimised sex differences between males and females.

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Outline nomothetic laws of universality

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Nomothetic laws of universality can ignore the effects of gender on how behaviours may differ between males and females as characteristics found in all genders are universal.

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What happens when characteristics vary within genders?

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When characteristics vary within genders then it can be deemed as unique and from a personal participant level, the idiographic approach.

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Define culture

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The values, ideas, customs and behavioural norms of a particular group or society.

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Individualistic cultures

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Individualistic cultures value independence, autonomy and fulfilling one’s own goals - typical of Western societies.

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Collectivist cultures

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Collectivism promotes inter-dependence, conformity and identifying as part of a group - typical of social hierarchy in Eastern societies.

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Cross-cultural research

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The study of human behaviour between different cultures to identify similarities and differences.

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Purpose of cross-cultural research

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It enables universal behaviours that are common to many cultures to be identified, as well as culturally specific behaviours, which are unique to a population.

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How does cultural bias occur

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Psychological research may inherently privilege one particular worldview over those that emerge from other cultures, leading to issues of cultural bias.

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Define reductionism

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Reductionism refers to the means of looking at the isolated parts of something when studying it, rather than the whole.

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Define holism

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Holism explains complex phenomena (human behaviour) without compartmentalising them into smaller subunits, instead accepting a complex interaction and relationships between many smaller units.

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Difference between reductionism and holism in psychology

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Reductionism often ignores the interactions between parts, whereas holism considers combining the influence of experience/culture /socialisation combined with nature, as seen in social psychology

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Outline the scientific nature of reductionism

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Reductionism uses scientific methods such a PET scans and is a focus on function/cause of behaviour like neurotransmitters causing increased aggression.

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What ethical standards does modern research have to reach?

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Today research with people in the UK has to meet the BPS code of Ethics & Conduct (2009) so people are safe and protected from mistreatment.

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Harm in ethics

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Human participants should not be caused distress or harm in research where there could be an alternative, such as case studies or secondary data gathering methods.

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Explain the issues with earlier psychological research

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Earlier psychological research (1960’s) did cause unnecessary distress to participants since the guidance was not enforced in the same way that it is now (Zimbardo, Milgram).

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What is researcher responsibility

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Responsibility includes human participants having the right to withdraw themselves or their data from research they are involved in and provided appropriate debriefing.

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What is integrity?

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Integrity means psychologists acting with honesty and fairness.

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What is competence?

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Competence is the ability of the psychologist to carry out the research.

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Outline respect

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Respect must be shown to participants so their needs are always meet, this involves issues around: privacy / confidentiality / informed and presumptive consent / minimising the impact of deception.

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What are the standards for animal research?

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Animal research is governed by the Scientific Procedures Act (1986) statutory guidelines to follow so that research is conducted with consideration for the animals.

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Why are animal researchers given licenses?

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Animals researchers are provided with licenses to ensure the animals are given good living conditions so they do not suffer and are well looked after.

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What is replacement (animal ethics)

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Where possible, the use of animals should be replaced with other scientific techniques like, using cells in tissue culture or computer simulations.

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What is reduction (animal ethics)

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The number of animals used in psychological research must be kept to a minimum.

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What is refinement (animal ethics)

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Making sure the procedures animals are exposed to minimise physical and psychological harm and living conditions are appropriate, cages should be equipped with food, water and a 12 day light-dark cycle.

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What is Nature?

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Nature refers to innate characteristics which humans are born with, such as genetics, hormones, and brain neurochemistry that affect the development of an individual and may cause clinical disorders.

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What is Nurture?

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Nurture is the opposite of nature, involving external influences often experienced over an individual’s lifetime, for example pre-birth disease and diet of the mother, or post-birth, the learning of physical behaviour by observation of role models in the environment.

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Why are psychologists interested in the role of nature and nurture in psychology?

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To discover the source of behaviours to establish suitable treatment strategies, modify behaviour, and improve society and the lives of individuals.

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Can nature and nurture combine?

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In some cases, a combination of both factors is involved, this epigenetic process can be seen when a specific gene may provide a genetic predisposition towards disorders like schizophrenia (Sz) which are activated and switched on by environmental factors like recreational drug use.

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Social psychology application

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To reduce anti-social behaviour such as football hooliganism.

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Cognitive psychology application

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To assess the extent to which eyewitness testimony is reliable enough to be used in court as evidence

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Criminal psychology application

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To assess the extent to which eyewitness testimony is reliable enough to be used in court as evidence

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Learning Theories application

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To assess if the influence of role models and celebrities is something that causes eating disorders.

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Clinical psychology application

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To assess if the influence of role models and celebrities is something that causes eating disorders.

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Biological psychology application

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To evaluate if aggression is caused by nature or nurture

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How has psychology evolved over time?

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Psychology has developed over time from a philosophical to a scientific discipline, with the advent of technology and human genome sequencing having a significant influence on psychological understanding.

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Outline changes in the psychological field over time

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The psychological field has moved away from speculation and theoretical ideas, toward an objective and empirical scientific approach.

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Gender differences in psychology

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Although most early psychologists were men, now most practising psychologists, including the presidents of the most important psychological organisations like the APA, are women.

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Areas of psychology that lack development

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Some areas of psychology have developed to a lesser extent, although the founder of psychoanalysis, Freud’s theories created a new approach to understanding the human psyche, such theories remain limited by falsifiability and scientific credibility.

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What are practical issues?

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Practical issues are the methodological choices researchers make when designing their research.

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Outline laboratory experiments

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Laboratory experimental procedures with highly controlled extraneous variables mean a causal relationship between an IV and an operationalised quantitative DV can be measured.

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Why do psychologists need to consider participant samples?

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To ensure that the studies are representative of the wider population, particularly generalisability of animals.

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What does the sampling method depend on?

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The sampling method, be it random, opportunity etc will depend on the researcher’s access to the target population.

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Deciding what to test

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Researchers need to decide whether they are going to explore a topic descriptively or test a hypothesis.

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How does the method of testing determine the data collection?

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It will determine if they are going to collect quantitative data (numerical units) or qualitative data (descriptive words) to test their aims.

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How to avoid researcher bias

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To avoid researcher bias, the researchers can plan for single or double blind procedures if this can be met in the implementation of the study.

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Criteria for psychology to be scientific

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In order for psychology to be considered scientific it must be able to produce hypotheses that are falsifiable.

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Karl Popper: scientific rigour

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Continually testing to disprove a theory, rather than ‘positivism’ (giving supporting research).

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