Lesson 2.9.2
2.9.2 Reductionism/holism and individual/situational explanations Quiz: OCR Psychology, Unit 2
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The 20 questions
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Which core study on obedience best exemplifies a situational explanation of behaviour?
- Hancock
- Milgram
- Kohlberg
- Freud
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Which core study on helping behaviour best exemplifies a situational explanation?
- Buss
- Hancock
- Gould
- Piliavin
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Which study focuses on individual explanations of autism through cognitive theory?
- Baron-Cohen
- Bandura
- Piliavin
- Milgram
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Which study investigates individual differences in aggression through social learning?
- Milgram
- Bandura
- Casey
- Sperry
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What approach breaks complex human behaviour down into basic biological components?
- Interactionism
- Gestalt
- Holism
- Reductionism
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What psychological approach views behaviour as an integrated whole rather than separate parts?
- Localization
- Holism
- Determinism
- Reductionism
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Which core study uses a strongly reductionist biological explanation for brain lateralisation?
- Piliavin
- Bandura
- Sperry
- Milgram
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Which core study adopts a holistic view of human behaviour by looking at multi-faceted real-world interactions?
- Blakemore
- Casey
- Piliavin
- Sperry
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What term describes explaining behaviour purely through genetic, neural, or hormonal mechanisms?
- Biological reductionism
- Cognitive bias
- Social holism
- Environmental determinism
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What term describes attributing human actions entirely to external social and environmental pressures?
- Individual explanation
- Biological reduction
- Dispositional attribution
- Situational explanation
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What term refers to explaining behaviour through internal traits, personality, or personal genetics?
- Systemic factor
- Situational explanation
- Contextual pressure
- Individual explanation
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Which core study investigates individual differences in self-control across the lifespan?
- Yamane
- Piliavin
- Casey
- Milgram
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Is reductionism generally considered nomothetic or idiographic in its research approach?
- Qualitative
- Idiographic
- Biographic
- Nomothetic
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Which level of reductionism does cognitive psychology typically employ by using information processing models?
- Cognitive reductionism
- Machine holism
- Social reductionism
- Biological reductionism
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Why might a holistic approach be criticised in scientific psychological research?
- Lacks testability
- Too simplistic
- Reduces variables
- Ignores context
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Why might a biological reductionist approach be criticised in psychology?
- Ignores biology
- Oversimplifies behaviour
- Too complex
- Lacks empiricism
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Which core study on moral development focuses on internal cognitive stages rather than immediate environment?
- Piliavin
- Buss
- Kohlberg
- Milgram
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Which core study provides a situational explanation for obedience in prison guards and prisoners?
- Haney
- Milgram
- Asch
- Freud
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Which debate explores whether behaviour is driven by internal traits or external environments?
- Individual versus situational
- Reductionism versus holism
- Nature versus nurture
- Free will versus determinism
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Which core study on developmental psychology primarily attributes aggression to internal individual learning?
- Piliavin et al.
- Milgram
- Bandura et al.
- Asch
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