Issues and debates

Descrição

A level Psychology Flashcards on Issues and debates, created by Jemima Glazin on 10/03/2017.
Jemima Glazin
FlashCards por Jemima Glazin, atualizado more than 1 year ago
Jemima Glazin
Criado por Jemima Glazin mais de 7 anos atrás
70
3

Resumo de Recurso

Questão Responda
Gender Bias: Key Words? -universality -alpha bias -beta bias -androcentrism -essentialism
Universality? -characteristic of humans that is capable of begin applied to all, despite difference of experience and upbrining
Alpha Bias? -theories that suggest actual differences in men and women -can enhance or undervalue either sex
Beta Bias? -theories that ignore/minimise difference between sexes
Androcentrism? (male centered) -'normal' behavior is judged on a male standard
Essentialism? -gender difference is inevitable + 'fixed' in nature
Examples of Alpha Bias in Psychology: Freud (description) -unconscious mind drives all behaviour -unresolved conflicts during psychosexual stages => act in a certain way -all males go through Oedipus Complex -> castration anxiety -girls = Electra Complex -> penis envy
Example of Alpha Bias in Psychology: Freud (evaluation) -theory identifies actual difference between males and females -> different complexes for each gender -Electra complex -> women fell inferior to males in the form of penis envy -replace need for penis with the desire to have a baby
Example of Androcentrism in Psychology: Milgram (description) -studied obedience in 40 American Males -told to give an electric shock (wasn't real) every time a confederate gave a wrong answer -found 100% shocked 'Mr Wallace' up to 300v and 65% gave full 450v
Example of Androcentrism in Psychology: Milgram (evaluation) -generalised his conclusions of an all male sample to females as well -female differences in conformity levels may be seen as abnormal or 'inferior', even though may be the standard behaviour for females
What feminists have accused of being gender bias -diagnosis of PMS -> stereotyping and trivializing female behaviour -social construction -> medicalises female emotions in hormonal terms e.s.p. anger -male anger seen as a rational response to external pressures
Example of Beta Bias (+androcentrism) in Psychology: Kolberg (description) -theory of moral reasoning -> moral development occurs through stages -based on interviews with teenage boys -suggests stages universal to both sexes -later carried out study of female Ps -> women reach lower levels of moral development
Example of Beta Bias (+androcentrism) in Psychology: Kolberg (Evaluation) -androcentric -> women reach lower levels in contrast to males -> suggest males sample results = standard of behaviour + females inferior -beta bias-> attempted to minimise differences as used both male and female sample
Example of Alpha Bias in Psychology: Sexual Selection (description) -unlimited male gametes but female gametes limited -female invest more to produce offspring -> look for genetically fit partner that is willing to provide (*money) -males use less resources -> aim = fertilise as many women as possible -> pass on alleles
Example of Alpha Bias (+androcentrism) in Psychology: Sexual Selection (evaluation) -alpha bias -> reports distinct differences in sexual selection between males and females -Androcentric -> accommodates promiscuity in males -> excuses them for hurting feelings of their partner. If women carried out behaviour = abnormal
Cultural Bias? -tendency to ignore cultural differences in behaviour + interpret all behaviour based on one culture alone
Universality? -underlying characteristics of behaviour that are capable of being applied to all, despite differences of experience + upbringing (culture bias threatens this)
Etic Approach? -human behaviour is studies from outside of a culture + generalised + said to be universal
Emic Approach? -human behaviour is studied within a culture + identifies a behaviour specific to that culture
Imposed Etic? -theory/concept rooted in personal culture of researcher is used to study/explain other cultures
Cultural Relativism? -behaviour can only be meaningfully understood within specific cultural contexts
Ethnocentrism? -judging other by values and standards of our own culture -researchers assume own culture = 'correct' behaviour => when other cultures observed and differ = 'incorrect' behaviour -devalues other cultures -=> prejudice, discrimination/racism
Example of Ethnocentrism and Imposed Etic in Psychology: Ainsworth (description) -studied attachment types of 100 middle-class US infants -controlled observation -based on stranger and separation anxiety -22% insecure-avoidant, 66% secure + 12% insecure-resistant
Example of Ethnocentrism and Imposed Etic in Psychology: Ainsworth (evaluation) -ethnocentric -> studied US + assumed separation + stranger anxiety used to measure attachment types across all cultures *Japan misinterpreted -Imposed Etic -> US catagorisation = 'norm' -> differences in other cultures = 'abnormal'
Examples of Ethnocentrism in Psychology: Culture Bond Disorders (decription) -culture bound -> only appear in one specific culture -Koro in south and east Asia -extreme anxiety that the penis/nipples will recede into the body and cause death
Example of Ethnocentrism in Psychology: Culture Bound Disorders (evaluation) -classification and diagnosis of mental health issues is ethnocetric -Diagnosis systems DSM + ICD are based on europeean and weastern populations -Therefore would have little understandinng of Koro and would not be able to explain or treat the illness effectively
Free Will? -humans can make own choices that are not determined by biological or external factors -we are self-determining
Determinism? -humans do not freely choose how to act as actions are the result of determined factors
Hard Dterminism (fatalism)? -free will is not possible as behaviour is always caused by internal/external events, beyond our control
Soft Determinism? -all events have causes, but behaviour can also be determined by our conscious choices in the absense of cohersion
Biological Determinism? behvaiour is caused by biological influences that we cannot control
Environmental Determinism? -behaviour is caused by features of environment that we canot control
Psychic Determinism? -behaviour is caused by unconscious conflicts that we cannot control
Evaluation: Why do deterministic theories support pscyhology's claim to being scientific? -basic principle of science -> every event has a caused that can be explained through general laws -events can be predicted and controlled => development of treatments, therapies and behavioural interventionns *antipsychotics to treat schizophrenia
Evaluation: SOON ET AL -brain activity for whether to press the button on the lift/right hand side occurs in the brian up to 10 seconds before Ps reported cosnciously making a decision -suggests choice and free will are determined by our brain before we become aware of them
Evalaution: Free Will and mental health disorders -=> total loss of control over our behaviour -doubt free will as no one would choose to have the disorder
Evalaution: Determinism and the Justice System -in court = offenders held morally accountable for their actions -determinism = not responsible -should we even send people to prison?
Evaluation: Free Will has face validity -experience a sense of free will through everyday choices we make daily -> makes cognitive sense -high internal L of C = believe we can influence event and control own behaviour -> tend to be more healthy => belief have free will has positive implicaitons
Example of Biological Determinism: SIFFRE (desciption) -undertook research in a cave where wasn't exposed to natural light -took detailed recrodings of when he slept, exercised and ate -found biological clock extended beyond 24 hours
Example of Biological Determinism: SIFFRE (evaluation) -he is not choosing when to sleep, exercise and eat -his biological clock (SCN) has detrmined his actions through thought processes
Example of Phycic Determinism: Freud Psychodynamic Approach (description) -behaviour determind by the unconscious mind -personality made up of the id, ego and super ego -id is key in determining behaviour as it encourages you to satisfy wants through immediate gratification (pleasure principle)
Example of Psycic Determinism: Freud Psychodynamic Approach (evaluation) -suggests behaviour determined by unconscious conflicts we cannot control -Even something random 'slip of the tongue' is driven by unconscious forces -all behaviour determined by unconscious conflicts during childhood (psychosexual Stages) -any free will = an illusion
Example of Soft Determinism: LOFTUS + PALMER (description) -studied effect of leading Qs of accuracy of EWT -Ps watch a video of a car crash and asked how fast were going when hit -verb changes for each condition -Found mean speed estimates were siginificantly different in each condition
Example of Soft Determinsim: LOFTUS + PALMER (evaluation) -answer given was determined by verb used in leading Q -do not decide how to answer questions, but that answers already decided through the way the Q is phrased -actively decide what memories we retrieve to construct an answer
Example of Reciprocal Determinsm: BANDURA (desciption) -SLT we learn behaviour through observation + immitation of models within a social context -stages of mediational processes; extent to which we pay attention, how well remember, ability to physcally reproduce and motivation to carry out behaviour
Example of Reciprocal Determinism: BANDURA (evaluation) -influenced by external environment by the behaviours we observe and also exert our own influence upon it through actively selecting behaviours to perform -suggests have some element of free well -just because we witness and behaviour does not mean we have to carry it out
Example of Free Will: Humanistic Approach (description) -ROGERS claims humans are self-determining and have free will -not influences by external/internal factors -active agents -> ability to determine ur own development -rejects scientific models that attempt to establish general laws and focus on subjective experiences of the individual
Example of Free Will: Humanistic Approach (evaluation) -does not matter what experiences or genes we have, we all actively choose to carry out certain behaviours -behaviour cannot be determind by biological or environmental forces
What is the Nature VS Nurture Debate? -to what extent is our behaviour a product of innate influences or lerning/environmental influences?
Heredity? -genetic transmission of mental and physical characteristics
Environment? -any influence on behaviour that is not genetic *pre-natal influences *influences of culture
Diathesis-stress Model? -nature and nurture influence + interact with each other, so it does not make sense to separate them
Epigenics? -genetic activity can change through interaction with the environment. This leaves 'marks' on the DNA that can be passed on to future generations
Evaluation: Nativists and Empiricists -natavists = inherited genetic makeup dtermined our characteristics + behaviour -Empiricists = any behaviour can be changes by altering environmental conditions -opposing attitudes on education, mental illness and the criminal justic system
Evaluation: Constructivism -create own 'nurture' by selecting environments that fit with 'nature' => environment effects development *aggressive child makes friends with other aggressive children -decribed and niche-picking + niche-building -interactionist
Evaluation: Shared/Unshared Envrionments -> INTERACTIONIST -even siblings will not have the same upbringing -DUN + POLMIN -> idividual differences => siblings experience life events differently *divorce of parents will have different meanings -explains why MZ twins not 100% concordance rate
Evaluation: Genotype-environment interaction -gene-environment interaction *parenst genes influence way they treat their children *child's genes influence and shape their environment *child creates own environment through people + experiences they select
Example for Nature: Bowlby's Theory of Attachment (description) -innate need to form one special attachment to one primary caregiver -hierarchy of attachments -developed through innate social releasers *smiling
Exampleof Nature: Bowlby's Theory of Attachment (evaluation) -INNATE -> biologically programmed from birth -social releases drive the attachment to be formed -will try to form a primary attachment, no matter what we experience when we are born
Argument for Nurture: Internal Working Model (decription) -mental template for furture relationshipd based on attachment to primary caregiver *if had a loving attachment expect relationships to be loving and are loving in relationships yourself -also acts as a framework for how you will parent yourself
Example of Nature: Internal Working Model (evaluation) -experience with attachment to parents and their parenting style = how you parent in the future and what expect in future relationships -not born with a pre-made template
Example of Nauture: Sexual Selection (description) -males have unlimited gametes (sperm) => goal is to fertilise as many females as possible to pass on alleles to next gen => look for youthful, child bearing hips e.c.t -Females limited gametes (eggs) -> use more resources => look for male who is willing to provide resources + is genetically fit
Example of Nature: Sexual Selection (evaluation) -different gametes for each gender determines what we find attractive -born with gametes and does not change due to experience
Example of Nurture: Expressed Emotion (descirption) -level of negative expressed emotion for carers causes a source of stress for the patient -causes the patient to relapse and become schizphrenic again
Example of Nurture: Expressed Emotion (evaluation) -experiences with carers determines whether we are able to recover from schizophrenia -effect occurs no matter what genome -suggests nature not nurture
Example of Interactionist: Diathesis-stress model (description) -have a genetic disposition to schizophrenia which makes you more vulnerable to developing the illness -stress trigger from the environment (*death of a familly member) => schizophrenia develops
Example of Interactionist: Diathesis-stress Model (evaluation) -both nuture and nature influences interact to cause the disorder -cannot develop the disorder with stress tigger or genetic disposition alone
Reductionism? -belief that human behaviour is best explained by breaking it down into smaller constituent parts
Biological Reductionism? -explaining psychological phenomena at a lower biological level *genes *hormones
Environmental Reductionism? -explaining psychological phenomena in term of a stimulus-response relationship *classical and operant conditioning
Holism? looking at the whole person rather than one specific part/factor to explain behaviour
Levels of Explanation in Psychology? -different ways of explaining the same phenomena -some more reductionist than others -each level becomes more reductionist than the one before
What are the levels of Explanation (holistic to reductionist)? -social cognition (from society) -social interactions -cognition + emotion -physiology -neurochemical -genetics

Semelhante

Psychology GCSE Edexcel Topic C - Do TV and violent video games affect behaviour? | Flashcards
Azidic Arcturus
History of Psychology
mia.rigby
Biological Psychology - Stress
Gurdev Manchanda
Bowlby's Theory of Attachment
Jessica Phillips
Psychology A1
Ellie Hughes
Psychology subject map
Jake Pickup
Psychology | Unit 4 | Addiction - Explanations
showmestarlight
Memory Key words
Sammy :P
The Biological Approach to Psychology
Gabby Wood
Chapter 5: Short-term and Working Memory
krupa8711
Cognitive Psychology - Capacity and encoding
T W