Topic 1.5: Perspective Questions

In psychology, a perspective means:

Explaining behaviour through the brain, genes and hormones is the:

Whether an unfamiliar custom seems strange or sensible mostly depends on:

Match each perspective to the kind of cause it looks for.

Match each term to its meaning.

Explaining behaviour through groups, other people and culture is the:

Understanding a behaviour from inside a culture, on its own terms, is the:

Judging another culture by the standards of your own culture is:

A questionnaire about 'good parenting' written in one country is used unchanged in a very different culture, where families work differently.

Outline what is meant by explaining a behaviour from more than one perspective.

Explain why a person might develop a fear of dogs, using two different perspectives. Use an example.

A student eats far more junk food after starting university.

Outline what is meant by ethnocentrism.

Explain how the perspective a researcher takes can affect their conclusions about an unfamiliar cultural practice. Use an example.

A team counts seconds of eye contact in ten countries and ranks the countries. Which approach is this?

What is the main risk of using only an outside (etic) approach?

A student says: "She failed because she thinks she is bad at maths and expects to fail." Which perspective is this?

Why are the three perspectives best seen as fitting together, and not as rivals?

Your class practical was a survey. Your class asked 40 students why they had chosen their subjects. Students ticked reasons from a list: "I am good at it", "I enjoy it" and "It is useful for a career". Explain the concept of perspective in relation to the survey in your class practical.

Context: Human relationships A researcher from a city university wants to study how disagreements between neighbours are settled in a remote farming community that she has never visited. Explain how an emic approach could be used in this research.