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Controversial Issues in Psychology

Please check back frequently as I work to update the following links, providing synopses of the controversies underlying these various areas:

 

Quantitative vs. Qualitative Research

Nature/Nurture

Mind/Body Dualism and Biopsychosocial Models

Objectivity/Subjectivity

Psychotherapy—Art or Science?

Prescription Privileges

Empirically Supported Treatments

Efficacy/Effectiveness

Comparative Studies

The Bell Curve

Reliability/Validity of Diagnoses

Categorical vs Dimensional diagnoses

Monoamine Hypothesis of Depression

Confounds in Neuroscientific Research

Dopamine Hypothesis of Schizophrenia

Pseudopatients

Eclecticism in Psychotherapy

Cognitive Revolution

Double-Blind

Drug Effect/Placebo Effect

Actuarial Psychology

Self-esteem

Dodo bird verdict/Common Factors

Agency/Determinism

Viability of Positivism

Viability of Behaviorism

“Proof” in Research—Affirming the Consequent

Postmodernism/Solipsism

Objectiveness of Numbers

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