Research in issues and debates

Question 1

Gender bias?

Answer 1

Hare Mustin and Marecek did the research into beta bias

Question 2

Culture bias?

Answer 2

Berry replicated Asch across many cultures

Question 3

Free will and determinism?

Answer 3

Chun Siong Soon did the hand test
Stephen Mobley was found guilty of shooting a pizza shop manager
Roberts looked at adolescents with a high belief in fatalism

Question 4

Holism and reductionism?

Answer 4

Watson and Raynor did the Little Albert study

Question 5

Nature - nurture?

Answer 5

Gottesman found there was a heritability coefficient of 0.48 with twin studies
Read in 2001 proposed the idea that early and severe child abuse can affect the developing brain
Dias and Ressler trained mice to fear a chemical
Nestadt looked at concordance for OCD
Tienaru looked at adopted children whose mothers had SZ
Watson and Raynor’s Little Albert study

Question 6

Idiographic and nomothetic?

Answer 6

Radford and Kirby looked at what general laws had been created
Millon and Davis suggested research should start with the nomothetic approach
Freud’s case study of Little Hans

Question 7

Ethical implications?

Answer 7

Sieber and Stanley looked at what parts of the research process can create ethical implications
Studies such as Bowlby’s monotropic theory and Geiger