Gender and culture in psychology

Presentation

universality and bias

Gender bias including androcentrism and  alpha and beta bias

cultural bias, including ethnocentrism and cultural relativism

Free will and determinism

hard determinism and soft determinism

biological, environmental and psychic determinism

The scientific emphasis on causal explanations

The nature-nurture debate

the relative importance of heredity and environment in determining behaviour

the interactionist approach

Holism and reductionism

levels of explanation in psychology

Biological reductionism and environmental (stimulus-response) reductionism

Idiographic and nomothetic approaches to psychological investigation

Ethical implications of research studies and theory, including reference to social sensitivity.