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Question 21

Psychologists often debate whether behaviour is driven by personal characteristics or by the environment in which a person is placed.

With reference to a specific psychological study, explain how its findings can be used to support a situational explanation of behaviour.

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Debates Questions

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Debates

276 exam-style questions on OCR A Level Psychology Debates, covering Nature/nurture, Freewill/determinism, Reductionism/holism, Individual/situational explanations, Usefulness of research, Ethical considerations, Conducting socially sensitive research, and Psychology as a science. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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