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(2012), the institutional setting created pressure, but not everyone behaved the same way.","correct":true,"explanation":"The institutional context created pressure to follow the requested behaviour, yet individual differences remained because participants did not all respond identically."},{"text":"In Bocchiaro et al. (2012), the institutional setting created freedom, but not everyone behaved the same way.","correct":false,"explanation":"The setting created pressure rather than freedom from influence. Although responses differed between people, the study did not show identical behaviour."},{"text":"In Bocchiaro et al. (2012), the institutional setting created pressure, but everyone behaved the same way.","correct":false,"explanation":"Participants did not all behave identically. The institutional setting created pressure, while differences in responses showed that behaviour was not entirely uniform."},{"text":"In Bocchiaro et al. (2012), the institutional setting created indifference, but everyone behaved the same way.","correct":false,"explanation":"The institutional context created pressure, not indifference. Moreover, participants varied in their responses, so the study did not support uniform behaviour."}]},{"id":"f394db2a-0cfb-43b6-98ce-9e82da4f3a76","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"What did personality measures predict in Bocchiaro et al. (2012)?","back":"They did not strongly predict whistleblowing.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"They did not strongly predict whistleblowing.","correct":true,"explanation":"Personality scores were poor predictors of who would blow the whistle, suggesting that situational pressure was more influential than measured personality differences."},{"text":"They did strongly predict whistleblowing.","correct":false,"explanation":"Personality measures did not strongly predict this behaviour. The findings instead emphasised situational pressure and individual unpredictability."},{"text":"They did not strongly predict obedience.","correct":false,"explanation":"The measures were not shown to strongly predict obedience rather than whistleblowing. Bocchiaro et al. found weak prediction of whistleblowing."},{"text":"They did perfectly predict whistleblowing.","correct":false,"explanation":"Personality measures were not completely unrelated to every response, but they were weak predictors of whistleblowing rather than perfect predictors."}]},{"id":"a1f16728-92a1-4340-9945-34d9adca0ec6","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"Which ethical issue did Bandura raise by exposing children to aggressive models?","back":"Protection from harm.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Protection from harm.","correct":true,"explanation":"Observing and imitating aggressive adult models could have increased children’s aggressive behaviour or caused distress, so Bandura’s procedure raised the ethical issue of protection from harm."},{"text":"Avoidance of deception.","correct":false,"explanation":"Deception concerns misleading participants about a study’s purpose, but the central issue here was the possible psychological and behavioural harm caused by exposure to aggression."},{"text":"The right to withdraw.","correct":false,"explanation":"The right to withdraw concerns allowing participants to leave freely. Bandura’s main ethical issue was protection from harm because children could learn aggression or experience distress."},{"text":"Protection of privacy.","correct":false,"explanation":"Privacy concerns intrusion into participants’ personal lives or spaces. The aggressive modelling procedure instead raised protection from harm because it risked negatively affecting the children."}]},{"id":"ce09d894-3e2b-4d9f-8019-f50f18e287f0","cardType":"basic","points":1,"front":"If behaviour is explained as personality or moral weakness, what ethical risk follows?","back":"Labelling/stigma.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Labelling/stigma.","correct":true,"explanation":"Attributing behaviour to personality defects or moral weakness can attach a negative identity to someone, leading others to stereotype, reject or discriminate against them."},{"text":"Privacy/confidentiality.","correct":false,"explanation":"Privacy and confidentiality concern the handling of personal information, not the negative social judgement produced by blaming behaviour on character. The relevant risk is labelling and stigma."},{"text":"Deception/consent.","correct":false,"explanation":"Deception and consent relate to how psychological research is conducted. Explaining behaviour as moral or personal weakness instead creates the ethical risk of labelling and stigma."},{"text":"Reliability/validity.","correct":false,"explanation":"Reliability and validity concern the quality of psychological evidence rather than harmful social judgements. Character-based explanations specifically risk producing labelling and stigma."}]},{"id":"db70a5cc-7d36-4354-8ead-d19c03eaeeeb","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"Why are individual explanations useful when people face the same situation?","back":"They explain differences between people.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"They explain differences between people.","correct":true,"explanation":"When people respond differently despite experiencing the same external conditions, individual explanations can account for this variation through factors such as personality, cognition or biology."},{"text":"They explain similarities between people.","correct":false,"explanation":"Similarities among people are more readily explained by shared situational pressures. Individual explanations are useful because they account for differences between people facing the same situation."},{"text":"They explain changes within situations.","correct":false,"explanation":"Changes within situations concern variation in external conditions, which is the focus of situational explanations. Individual explanations account for differences between people under equivalent conditions."},{"text":"They explain differences between cultures.","correct":false,"explanation":"Cultural differences primarily involve wider social norms and contexts. The specific strength of individual explanations is accounting for differences between people who face the same situation."}]},{"id":"c2e1a092-9c4d-4371-88c5-c3e3d065253e","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"What is reductionist about some individual explanations?","back":"They reduce behaviour to one internal cause.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"They reduce behaviour to one internal cause.","correct":true,"explanation":"Some individual explanations isolate a single internal factor, such as personality or biology, while overlooking the interaction of multiple personal and situational influences."},{"text":"They reduce behaviour to one external cause.","correct":false,"explanation":"An external cause belongs to a situational rather than an individual explanation. The reductionist criticism is that some individual accounts reduce behaviour to one internal cause."},{"text":"They reduce behaviour to several interacting causes.","correct":false,"explanation":"Considering several interacting causes is less reductionist because it acknowledges complexity. The criticism applies when behaviour is reduced to one internal cause."},{"text":"They reduce behaviour to personal and social causes.","correct":false,"explanation":"A broad combination of personal and social causes is interactionist rather than narrowly reductionist. Some individual explanations are criticised for isolating one internal cause."}]},{"id":"a01cc16d-fdd2-4833-9d82-bac3d94d9905","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"What practical strength do situational explanations have?","back":"Changing the environment can change behaviour.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Changing the environment can change behaviour.","correct":true,"explanation":"Situational factors are often directly modifiable, so changing features such as social norms, authority structures or physical surroundings can produce practical improvements in behaviour."},{"text":"Changing the personality can change behaviour.","correct":false,"explanation":"Personality is an internal individual factor and may be difficult to alter directly. Situational explanations are practically useful because changing the environment can change behaviour."},{"text":"Changing the genotype can change behaviour.","correct":false,"explanation":"Genotype is inherited and cannot normally be altered as a behavioural intervention. Situational explanations instead suggest that modifying the environment can change behaviour."},{"text":"Changing the unconscious can change behaviour.","correct":false,"explanation":"The unconscious is an internal concept associated with psychodynamic individual explanations, not situational accounts. Their practical strength is that environmental conditions can be changed."}]},{"id":"eb17047f-8f68-4ae4-b8c7-59ab41a03ab2","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"Situational explanations can underplay [ ] and become [ ].","back":"Situational explanations can underplay personal responsibility and become deterministic.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Situational explanations can underplay personal responsibility and become deterministic.","correct":true,"explanation":"Explaining behaviour through external pressures can minimise people’s accountability and imply that their actions are controlled by circumstances, making the explanation environmentally deterministic."},{"text":"Situational explanations can underplay personal responsibility and become interactionist.","correct":false,"explanation":"Interactionist explanations combine individual and situational influences rather than treating behaviour as controlled by circumstances. Situational accounts can underplay personal responsibility and become deterministic."},{"text":"Situational explanations can underplay social context and become deterministic.","correct":false,"explanation":"Situational explanations emphasise rather than underplay social context. Their limitation is that this emphasis may minimise personal responsibility and produce a deterministic account."},{"text":"Situational explanations can underplay personal responsibility and become idiographic.","correct":false,"explanation":"Idiographic explanations focus on unique individuals and are not an inevitable result of situational thinking. Situational accounts can instead underplay personal responsibility and become deterministic."}]},{"id":"de2f2e35-d8e3-40a5-ad4c-4a11768ad18e","cardType":"cloze","points":null,"front":"A learned personality trait is [ ] but may come from [ ].","back":"A learned personality trait is individual but may come from nurture.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"A learned personality trait is individual but may come from nurture.","correct":true,"explanation":"A personality trait belongs to the person, making it an individual factor, but if it is learned through experience its origin is environmental nurture."},{"text":"A learned personality trait is situational but may come from nurture.","correct":false,"explanation":"A personality trait is located within the individual rather than in the immediate situation. Because it is learned, however, it may originate through nurture."},{"text":"A learned personality trait is individual but may come from nature.","correct":false,"explanation":"Calling the trait learned indicates acquisition through experience, so it reflects nurture rather than genetic nature. It remains an individual characteristic once acquired."},{"text":"A learned personality trait is situational but may come from nature.","correct":false,"explanation":"A learned personality trait is neither situational nor a product of biological nature: it is an individual factor that may have developed through nurture."}]},{"id":"9c77a3df-5b30-45e9-90e6-2c7ad76ec7c2","cardType":"basic","points":2,"front":"Why can the individual/situational debate be culturally biased?","back":"Cultures differ in emphasis on individual responsibility versus social context.","mcqOptions":[{"text":"Cultures differ in emphasis on individual responsibility versus social context.","correct":true,"explanation":"Individualistic cultures often stress personal choice and responsibility, whereas collectivist cultures give greater weight to relationships and social context, biasing preferences for particular explanations."},{"text":"Cultures differ in emphasis on nature versus nurture.","correct":false,"explanation":"Nature versus nurture concerns whether behaviour originates biologically or environmentally. 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