Lesson 3.6.2

3.6.2 Individual/situational explanations, usefulness, ethics and sensitive research Quiz: OCR Psychology, Unit 3

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The 20 questions

  1. Which explanation attributes criminal behaviour strictly to personality traits and upbringing?

    • Reductionist explanation
    • Situational explanation
    • Individual explanation
    • Holistic explanation

  2. Which psychological perspective relies heavily on situational explanations for obedience?

    • Clinical psychology
    • Individual psychology
    • Biological psychology
    • Social psychology

  3. What term describes psychological research that has potential social consequences for participants?

    • Ethically neutral
    • Purely theoretical
    • Socially sensitive
    • Methodologically sound

  4. Which principle must researchers balance against the pursuit of socially sensitive knowledge?

    • Institutional bias
    • Scientific freedom
    • Financial profit
    • Publication speed

  5. What is the primary benefit of psychological research having high practical usefulness?

    • Simplifies data analysis
    • Guarantees funding
    • Reduces study costs
    • Improves human lives

  6. Which factor makes psychological research less useful to society?

    • Quantitative data
    • High sample size
    • Low ecological validity
    • Strict standardisation

  7. If a study blames prisoners' abuse solely on prison guards' personalities, what explanation is used?

    • Situational explanation
    • Interactionist view
    • Individual explanation
    • Systemic perspective

  8. A psychologist attributes a bystander's failure to help purely to the presence of a crowd. What is this?

    • Personality trait
    • Situational explanation
    • Genetic explanation
    • Individual explanation

  9. Research investigating the genetic basis of intelligence is often classified as what type of topic?

    • Purely situational
    • Socially sensitive
    • Methodologically invalid
    • Ethically exempt

  10. Which ethical guideline is particularly challenging to uphold in socially sensitive research?

    • Informed consent
    • Right to withdraw
    • Protection from harm
    • Debriefing protocol

  11. What type of explanation combines both personal traits and environmental pressures?

    • Reductionist approach
    • Nomothetic approach
    • Idiographic approach
    • Interactionist approach

  12. What is the main issue if experimental tasks lack mundane realism in research?

    • Tasks lack relevance
    • Low internal validity
    • Poor sample size
    • High demand characteristics

  13. Which governance board reviews research proposals to ensure participant protection in the UK?

    • Finance directorate
    • Legal judiciary
    • Ethics committee
    • Government cabinet

  14. What term describes the application of psychological knowledge to solve real-world problems?

    • Pure psychology
    • Applied psychology
    • Theoretical psychology
    • Reductionist psychology

  15. When a study's findings are misinterpreted by the media, what ethical issue arises?

    • Inadequate debriefing
    • Lack of consent
    • Breach of confidentiality
    • Public policy misuse

  16. Which approach assumes human behaviour is entirely determined by external environmental forces?

    • Psychic determinism
    • Situational reductionism
    • Individualism
    • Biological determinism

  17. Evaluating whether a therapy works in a standard hospital ward tests its what?

    • Test-retest reliability
    • External validity
    • Construct validity
    • Internal validity

  18. What is a major risk of ignoring situational pressures when treating offenders?

    • Increased biological drive
    • Ineffective rehabilitation
    • Genetic mutation
    • Enhanced free will

  19. Which research goal directly conflicts with strict confidentiality in sensitive studies?

    • Informed consent
    • Random sampling
    • Transparent reporting
    • Data standardisation

  20. Why is it vital to consider social consequences before publishing sensitive psychological data?

    • Prevent discrimination
    • Improve statistical power
    • Enhance mundane realism
    • Increase sample size

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