definitions

• gender bias

  differential treatment or representation of males and females based on stereotypes and not real differenrences
• Culture bias 


  tendency to judge people in term of ones own cultural assumptions
• Fee Will (and determinism)


  humans are able too make their own decisions and not determined by biological or environmental factors
• Determinism (and free will)

  view that free will is an illusion and that our behavour is governed by internal or external forces over which we have no control
• Nature-nurture debate 


  centres on the relative contributions of genetic inheritance and environmental factors to human development and behaviour

  the oldest debates in psychology
• Holism (and reductionism)


  means 'all', 'whole' and is the idea that human behaviour should be viewed as a whole integrated experience and not as separate parts
• Reductionism (and holism)


  Is the belief that human behaviour can be explained by breaking it down into simpler component parts
• Idiographic approach 


  means 'own' or 'private', focuses on the individual and emphasises the unique personal experience of human nature
• Nomothetic approach

  means 'law', concerned with establishing general laws, based on the study of large groups of people, and the use of statistical techniques to analyse data
• Ethical implications on research studies

  consider the impact or consequence that psychological research has on the rights of other people in a wider context, not just the participants taking part in the research