Issues and Debates

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Issues and Debates is a key topic in the Edexcel A-Level Psychologyspecification. This topic covers key debates and issues in psychology including ethics, nature-nurture, and reductionism.

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Ethical issues in psychological research Ethics of working with humans Ethics of animal research Socially sensitive research Use of psychological research Nature-nurture debate Heredity vs environment Interactionist approach Diathesis-stress model Epigenetics Examples across topics Reductionism vs holism debate Biological reductionism Environmental reductionism Machine reductionism Benefits of reductionist approach Holistic approaches Levels of explanation Psychology as a science Scientific criteria Empiricism Objectivity Control Replicability Falsifiability Paradigms in psychology Pre-paradigmatic science Is psychology a science?Cultural issues in psychology Ethnocentrism Cultural bias Emic vs etic approaches Cultural relativism Universality Gender issues in psychology Androcentrism Alpha bias Beta bias Gender bias in research Free will vs determinism Hard determinism Soft determinism Biological determinism Environmental determinism Psychic determinism Free will in humanistic psychology Implications for society Individual vs situational explanations Dispositional factors Situational factors Interactionist perspective Fundamental attribution error Applications of psychology Practical applications Social control issues Use and misuse of research Psychology in society

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