Lesson 2.9.1
2.9.1 Nature/nurture and free will/determinism Quiz: OCR Psychology, Unit 2
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The 20 questions
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Which core study is best described as an example of strong biological determinism?
- Milgram
- Sperry
- Piliavin
- Bocchiaro
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What philosophical term describes the belief that all events, including human actions, have prior causes?
- Empiricism
- Holism
- Reductionism
- Determinism
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Which core study explicitly supports the nurture side of the debate through social learning?
- Bandura
- Kohlberg
- Lee
- Piaget
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Which term describes the view that behaviour is a product of innate genetic factors?
- Pluralism
- Nature
- Nurture
- Interactionism
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What psychological debate explores whether we control our own behaviour or are controlled by external forces?
- Reductionism
- Idiographic
- Free will
- Nomothetic
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Which type of determinism claims our behaviour is controlled by unconscious instinctual drives?
- Environmental
- Psychic
- Social
- Biological
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Which core study best illustrates environmental determinism through operant conditioning principles?
- Milgram
- Skinners
- Loftus
- Blass
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Which research method is most commonly associated with biological determinism in psychological studies?
- Questionnaires
- Case studies
- Lab experiments
- Covert observation
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What is the interactionist approach in psychology regarding nature versus nurture?
- Nurture only
- Nature only
- Both interact
- Neither matters
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If a researcher claims intelligence is entirely inherited from parents, which debate position are they taking?
- Nurture
- Free will
- Nature
- Holism
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Which debate is concerned with whether behaviour can be studied by breaking it down into basic units?
- Universality
- Idiographic
- Free will
- Reductionism
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Which core study demonstrates that obedience can be heavily forced by situational environmental pressures?
- Hancock
- Baron-Cohen
- Gould
- Milgram
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What term describes the belief that human behaviour is entirely shaped by learning and experience?
- Evolution
- Nurture
- Maturation
- Determinism
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Which psychological approach emphasises personal growth, agency, and free will?
- Behaviourist
- Biological
- Humanistic
- Psychodynamic
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Which core study provides evidence for biological determinism regarding brain injury and personality?
- Watson
- Thorndike
- Phineas Gage
- Pavlov
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What is a major limitation of adopting a hard determinism stance in psychology?
- Lacks empirical evidence
- Denies legal responsibility
- Ignores genetics
- Always qualitative
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Which term describes twin studies used by researchers to disentangle nature and nurture influences?
- Correlation coefficients
- Concordance rates
- P-values
- Chi-square values
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Which core study highlights cultural nurture differences in moral reasoning development?
- Sperry
- Blakemore
- Kohlberg
- Casey
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Which perspective views human beings as active agents who construct their own mental reality?
- Behaviourist
- Biological
- Reductionist
- Cognitive
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Which core study is the best example of investigating the free will side of the debate?
- Raine et al.
- Bocchino et al.
- Sperry
- Milgram
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