Areas of psychology
- Created by: Mariya_99
- Created on: 21-04-16 17:55
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- Helps us understand the extent to which behaviour is affected by other people
- Practical applications: Milgrams study into obedience showed we should be wary of being blindly obedient
- Research can be used in schools as responsible authority figures can be used to teach kids
- Research often seeks to explain real world events: ww2
- High ecological validity especially if field exp are used
- Research often seeks to explain real world events: ww2
- Research can be used in schools as responsible authority figures can be used to teach kids
- Practical applications: Milgrams study into obedience showed we should be wary of being blindly obedient
- Research is socially sensitive so its hard to stay within ethical guidelines
- Boundaries can become blurred between social and cognitive area
- limits to the way info can be gathered, may have to rely on self report data which can be affected by demand characteristics
- Sperry asked p's toperform tasks or anser questions about what they had experienced, could have said that they thought researcher wanted to hear. (not valid)
- Explanations of behaviour based on biology alone is too simplistic (reductionist) avoid overplaying importance of biology
- Sperry asked p's toperform tasks or anser questions about what they had experienced, could have said that they thought researcher wanted to hear. (not valid)
- Research with children may raise ethical issues such as consent and protection
- Using children as participants highlights practical issues such as making inferences from behaviour as they can't tell us
- Developmental
- Study of how and why human beings develop over the course of their lives
- Lacks a set of defining beliefs about why people behave the way they do, more disagreement in this area than others
- Much of the research is socially sensitive and it has the potential to be put to harmful use
- The tools for measuring differences may not be valid (Freud)
- Much of the research is socially sensitive and it has the potential to be put to harmful use
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