Issues & Debates - AQA Psychology in 17 MINS!

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Issues and debates in Psychology
Gender and culture in Psychology – universality and bias. Gender bias including androcentrism and alpha and beta bias; cultural bias, including ethnocentrism and cultural relativism.
Free will and determinism: hard determinism and soft determinism; biological, environmental and psychic determinism. The scientific emphasis on causal explanations.
The nature-nurture debate: the relative importance of heredity and environment in determining behaviour; the interactionist approach.
Holism and reductionism: levels of explanation in Psychology. Biological reductionism and environmental (stimulus-response) reductionism.
Idiographic and nomothetic approaches to psychological investigation.
Ethical implications of research studies and theory, including reference to social sensitivity.


0:00 Intro
0:40 Gender and culture bias in Psychology
3:44 Free will and determinism
6:09 The nature-nurture debate
8:46 Holism and reductionism
11:08 Idiographic and nomothetic approaches
13:39 Ethical implications
16:25 Outro