AQA A Level · Psychology 7182

Gender bias and cultural bias: Practice Questions

5 multiple-choice questions marked as you go, and 3 written questions with worked solutions. All on Gender bias and cultural bias.

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Question 1

1 mark

In the nature-nurture debate, the term heredity is most closely associated with which of the following?

Question 2

1 mark

In the nature-nurture debate, which term is used to describe the process where an individual's genetic makeup influences the environment they inhabit, effectively creating a feedback loop between heredity and environment?

Question 3

1 mark

One significant limitation of the nomothetic approach to psychological investigation is that:

Question 4

1 mark

What term describes the tendency to judge all people in terms of one's own cultural assumptions?

Question 5

1 mark

According to Sieber and Stanley (1988), why is socially sensitive research particularly important for psychologists to consider?

Question 6

3 marks

Briefly explain what is meant by cultural relativism and how it differs from ethnocentrism in psychological research.

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Question 7

4 marks

Distinguish between hard determinism and soft determinism, making reference to the role of conscious choice in human behavior.

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Question 8

6 marks

Contrast the idiographic and nomothetic approaches to psychological investigation, specifically comparing their primary goals and the typical levels of measurement used in their data collection.

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