AQA Psychology for A Level Year 2 Flashbook

Gender and culture in psychology: Cultural bias — multiple choice questions 1 The belief in the superiority of one’s own cultural group: (a) Universality. (b) Ethnocentrism. (c) Androcentrism. 4 Strange Situation is an: (a) Imposed emic. (b) Imposed etic. (c) Imposed exit. 7 Found evidence for universal expression of emotions: (a) Ekman. (b) Bickman. (c) Milgram. 2 Emic approach studies behaviour from: (a) Outside a culture. (b) Within a culture. (c) An objective outsider’s perspective. 5 Takano and Osaka claim this distinctionmay no longer apply: (a) Independent-collaborative. (b) Instinctive-coercive. (c) Individualism-collectivism. 8 Demand characteristics in cross- cultural research affect: (a) Validity. (b) Reliability. (c) Universality. 3 Psychology’s facts only make sense in the culture studied: (a) Universality. (b) Cultural relativism. (c) Ethnocentrism. 6 Not a problem of cross-cultural research: (a) Demand characteristics. (b) Challenges Western assumptions. (c) Interpretation of variables. Answers 1B 2B 3B 4B 5C 6B 7A 8A Possible extended writing questions: • Discuss cultural bias in psychology. [AL = 16] • Discuss cultural bias in psychology. Refer to at least one topic you have studied in your answer. [AL = 16] 6 Topic 1: Issues and debaTes