Unit 1: Concepts
Topic 1.5: Perspective Questions
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In psychology, a 'perspective' means:
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Explaining behaviour through the brain, genes and hormones is the:
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Explaining behaviour through norms, groups and culture is the:
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Match each perspective to the kind of cause it looks for.
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Whether an unfamiliar custom seems 'strange' or 'sensible' mostly depends on:
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Understanding a behaviour from inside a culture, on its own terms, is the:
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Judging another culture by the standards of your own culture is:
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Match each term to its meaning.
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A student eats far more junk food after starting university.
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Outline what is meant by explaining a behaviour from more than one perspective.
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A questionnaire about 'good parenting' written in one country is used unchanged in a very different culture, where families work differently.
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A team counts seconds of eye contact across ten countries and ranks them. This is mainly an:
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What is the main risk of using ONLY an outsider (etic) approach?
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Outline what is meant by ethnocentrism.
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Explain how the perspective a researcher takes can affect their conclusions about an unfamiliar cultural practice. Use an example.
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A student says 'she failed because she thinks she's bad at maths and expects to fail'. Which perspective is this?
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Explain why a person might develop a fear of dogs, using two different perspectives. Use an example.
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Why are the three perspectives best seen as complementary rather than rivals?
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'The biological perspective is the only really scientific way to explain behaviour, so the others can be ignored.' Discuss this claim.
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'To be scientific, psychology should just compare all cultures using one fixed set of measures.' Discuss this claim.
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