AQA Psychology Issues & Debates

When normal behaviour is judged from a male standard is a definition of...

• Androcentricism

• Ethnocentrism

• Estrocentricism

• Egocentricism

Which of the following refers to ignoring or minimising differences between the sexes?

• Alpha bias

• Beta bias

• Delta bias

• Theta bias

The idea that social norms and values can only be understood within that society is...

• Cultural optimism

• Cultural relativism

• Cultural reflexity

• Cultural univeralism

Critics have argued that Ainsworth's ideal attachment type is an example of...

• Imposed etic

• Imposed emic

• Supposed etic

• Supposed emic

Which of the following is not a form of determinism?

• Biological

• Humanisitic

• Environmental

• Psychic

Freewill is at the heart of whose approach to therapy?

• Albert Bandura

• Sigmund Freud

• Carl Rogers

• B F Skinner

Which form of determinism is most associated with Sigmund Freud?

• Psychic

• Biological

• Environmental

• Soft

Which of the following advocates a holistic view of human behaviour?

• The cognitive approach

• The behaviourist approach

• The biological approach

• The humanistic approach

Which of the following would be most closely associated with the nomothetic approach?

• Experiments

• Case studies

• Unstructured interviews

• Qualitative data

Which of the following would be associated with the idiographic approach?

• Classifying people into groups

• Establishing principles of behaviour in general

• Describing unusual individuals in detail

• Establishing dimensions along which people can be compared