2023 AQA A LEVEL PSYCHOLOGY PAPER 3 MARK SCHEME- Issues & Options
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2023 AQA A LEVEL PSYCHOLOGY PAPER 3 MARK SCHEME- Issues & Options
Key features
1. focus on acceptance of responsibility/positive change
2. non-courtroom setting, voluntary
3. active rather than passive
4. focus on positive outcomes for both
2023 AQA A LEVEL PSYCHOLOGY PAPER 3 MARK
SCHEME- Issues & Options
Gender bias
Psychologists seek universality but bias may be inevitable (social historical contexts)
Gender bias: psychological theory/research not accurately represent experience/behaviour of men +
women
Alpha bias: differences exaggerated, devalue women
E.g. Freud = genuine psychological differences due to physiological differences
Girls suffer from 'penis envy', femininity is failed masculinity
Beta bias: differences minimised, needs of women ignored
E.g. fight or flight research = male only sample, assumed would be applicable, Taylor et al: tend and
befriend (governed by oxytocin)
Androcentrism: male behaviour seen as normal, deviations seen as abnormal/inferior
Female behaviour misunderstood/pathologised
E.g. feminists object to PMS, medicalises female emotions by explaining in hormonal terms (Male anger
often seen as rational response to external pressures)
Gender bias (- in psych research)
May create misleading assumptions about female behaviour/validate discriminatory practices
Scientific justification to deny opportunities (e.g. due to PMS)
Damaging consequences on lives/prospects
,Gender bias (- promotes sexism in research process)
Lack of women at senior research level = female concerns not reflected in research questions asked
Men more likely to be published
Female ppts in inequitable relationship with researcher (power to label irrational/unable to complete
tasks)
Constitutional sexism - creates bias in theory/research
Gender bias (+ feminist psychologists suggest how to avoid)
Worrell & Remer:
Studied within meaningful real life contexts
Participate instead of objects of study
Study diversity within groups of women rather than comparisons to men
Collaborative research methods (qualitative data)
Preferable/less biased
Cultural bias
Psych claims to unearth universal truths but may only apply to particular groups studied
Wrongly assumed western findings would apply all over the world
E.g. conformity (Asch) and obedience (Milgram) produced different results outside of US
Standard/norm for behaviour judged from one culture = cultural differences seen as abnormal
Ethnocentrism: belief in superiority of own culture
Behaviour that doesn't conform to Western model = deficient
Full understanding requires study of both universals/variations among individuals/groups
Cultural bias (cross-cultural research prone to demand characteristics)
, Western cultures: familiarity with aims/objectives of scientific enquiry assumed
Cultures without historical experience of research, local populations more affected by demand
characteristics
Unfamiliarity with research tradition threatens validity of outcomes
Free will/determinism
Free will: we are self-determining
Free to choose thoughts/actions
Biological/environmental influences on behaviour but can reject
No cause/unpredictable
Humanistic approach
Determinism: behaviour shaped/controlled by internal/external forces
Hard = completely out of control, all has cause possible to identify, predictable, compatible with aims of
science
Soft = all has cause, conscious mental control over behaviour, behaviour predictable to extent, some
free will to make choices
Biological determinism
Biological approach, control from internal biological factors (physiological/genetic/hormonal)
Physiological processes not under conscious control (e.g. influence of ANS on stress/anxiety)
Genetic factors may determine behaviours/characteristics (e.g. mental disorders)
Hormones may determine behaviour (e.g. testosterone linked to aggression)
Environmental determinism
Popularised by behaviourist approach
Skinner: all result of conditioning
Choice = total sum of reinforcement contingencies acted upon during lives
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