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Approaches

Question 1 of 10

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What is 1 weakness of the social approach?

Select one of the following:

  • It has real-life relevance

  • Studying behaviour can be unethical

  • Experiments in this approach lack control

  • It has too many applications that aren't useful to society.

Explanation

Question 2 of 10

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What is 1 overview of the social approach?

Select one of the following:

  • Human behaviour is influenced by others

  • Being social is very healthy

  • Being social is influenced by your childhood

  • Being social is influenced by your genes.

Explanation

Question 3 of 10

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What 1 of these core studies are related to the psychodynamic perspective?

Select one of the following:

  • Baron-Cohen et al. (autism)

  • Loftus and Palmer (eyewitness testimony)

  • Sperry (split brain)

  • Freud (Little Hans)

Explanation

Question 4 of 10

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Why can some studies under the individual differences approach be said to be unethical?

Select one of the following:

  • They have the tendency to label people as being different

  • Freud's study only had 1 participant

  • Participants are rarely debriefed

  • Participants usually get injured

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Question 5 of 10

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What is the most common experimental setting used for studies under the cognitive area?

Select one of the following:

  • Quasi experiment

  • Field experiment

  • Lab experiment

  • Natural observation

Explanation

Question 6 of 10

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Which 1 of these studies are related to the behaviourist perspective?

Select one of the following:

  • Milgram (obedience)

  • Sperry (split brain)

  • Bandura, Ross and Ross (aggression)

  • Baron-Cohen et al. (autism)

Explanation

Question 7 of 10

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Which 1 of these describes the biological approach?

Select one of the following:

  • It explains behavior by focusing on the function of the brain and nervous system

  • Biology is key to evolution

  • The biological approach contains studies that are not ethical

  • The biological approach is not as useful as the social approach

Explanation

Question 8 of 10

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Why is ethics a problem for studies located under the social area?

Select one of the following:

  • People are very sensitive to social issues

  • It is difficult to study social behaviour without negatively affecting the participants

  • Most of the participants are too young

  • There is ethnocentrism in these studies

Explanation

Question 9 of 10

1

What is determinism in psychology?

Select one of the following:

  • Our behaviour is controlled by our genes

  • Behaviour can be broken down into constituent parts

  • When we are determined to do something

  • Behaviour is due to others

Explanation

Question 10 of 10

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Which 1 of the following describes the main overview of the developmental approach?

Select one of the following:

  • Human behaviour is influenced by genes

  • Most people develop slowly

  • Human development is an interaction between nature and nurture

  • Human behaviour can be studied effectively through the use of apparatus

Explanation

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