Lesson 9.3.1
9.3.1 Ethics, practical issues, reductionism and psychology as a science Quiz: Pearson Edexcel Psychology, Unit 9
20 questions
In partnership with Revision Ninja
Lesson 9.3.1, Ethics, practical issues, reductionism and psychology as a science: 20 multiple choice questions for the Pearson Edexcel Psychology (9PS0), Unit 9: Psychological skills, written with Revision Ninja.
Host it live on the board and students join with a game code on their own devices, or revise alone with Free Play. The answers are revealed in the game.
The 20 questions
-
Which issue arises when participants experience unforeseen distress during a psychological study?
- Sampling bias
- Ethical issues
- Paradigm shifts
- Practical issues
-
What main practical difficulty occurs when conducting covert research in a natural setting?
- Calculating probabilities
- Standardising tests
- Maintaining secrecy
- Obtaining equipment
-
What term describes explaining complex human behaviour using simple constituent parts?
- Holism
- Reductionism
- Determinism
- Empiricism
-
Explaining addiction solely through neurotransmitter levels is an example of what?
- Environmental reductionism
- Social learning
- Biological reductionism
- Holism
-
Which feature of scientific research allows a study to be repeated using identical procedures?
- Empiricism
- Replicability
- Objectivity
- Falsifiability
-
What practical issue arises when administering questionnaires under severe time constraints?
- Demand characteristics
- Gender bias
- Ethical approval
- Incomplete responses
-
Giving participants a placebo while claiming it is an active drug causes which ethical issue?
- Confidentiality
- Deception
- Animal welfare
- Right to withdraw
-
Besides ethical acceptability, what essential requirement determines if a research study can actually run?
- Historical significance
- Peer consensus
- Theoretical popularity
- Practical feasibility
-
What major factor is ignored when aggression is explained purely by testosterone levels?
- Genetic inheritance
- Brain structure
- Social context
- Reaction time
-
Why is human behaviour harder to study scientifically than physics or chemistry?
- High individual variability
- Lack of hypotheses
- Excessive apparatus costs
- Absence of theories
-
Replicating a western psychological study in another culture introduces which main practical issue?
- Lack of ethics
- Invalid statistics
- Equipment destruction
- Translation and adaptation
-
Under UK BPS guidelines, psychological research using animals must actively aim to do what?
- Avoid debriefing
- Ensure covert observation
- Minimise harm
- Maximise sample size
-
What is the main practical issue when observers interpret behavioural categories differently?
- Low internal validity
- Demand characteristics
- Low inter-rater reliability
- High observer bias
-
Which philosophical concept is ignored by biological determinism in explanations of addiction?
- Ethnocentrism
- Free will
- Social control
- Reductionism
-
What can strict ethical guidelines potentially reduce by limiting experimental control or deception?
- Ecological validity
- Statistical significance
- Inter-rater reliability
- Sample size
-
Which methodological feature is essential for confirming scientific findings independently?
- Standardisation
- Triangulation
- Replication
- Extrapolation
-
What term describes explaining a complex disorder using only a single basic cause?
- Determinism
- Reductionism
- Androcentrism
- Ethnocentrism
-
Which feature of scientific psychology is supported by using statistical testing in research?
- Subjectivity
- Objectivity
- Ethnocentrism
- Reductionism
-
What is a major practical limitation of conducting observational research in field settings?
- Lack of realism
- Uncontrolled extraneous variables
- Low ecological validity
- High demand characteristics
-
Measuring stress using only heart rate is an example of which type of reductionism?
- Methodological reductionism
- Environmental reductionism
- Machine reductionism
- Biological reductionism
Related quizzes
- Theories of obedience: agency theory and social impact theory Quiz · 1.1.1 · 20 questions
- Working memory model Quiz · 2.1.1 · 20 questions
- Neurons, neurotransmitters and recreational drugs Quiz · 3.1.1 · 20 questions
- Classical conditioning and Pavlov's experiment Quiz · 4.1.1 · 20 questions
- Diagnosing mental disorders and classification systems Quiz · 5.1.1 · 20 questions
- Biological and social explanations of crime Quiz · 6.1.1 · 20 questions
- Bowlby's work on attachment Quiz · 7.1.1 · 20 questions
- Addiction, tolerance, dependency and withdrawal Quiz · 8.1.1 · 20 questions
- Milgram's obedience research and variation studies Quiz · 1.1.2 · 20 questions
- Multi-store model of memory Quiz · 2.1.2 · 20 questions