AS Contributions to Society
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- Contributions to Society
- Social
- Understanding Prejudice
- How does this help society?
- Knowing what causes prejudice means that we can reduce it.
- Psychological studies to support contribution.
- Tajfel et al
- Sherif (1954)
- Theories that may explain the issue.
- Social Identity Theory (SIT)
- Social Conflict Theory
- Evalauting the contribution.
- There is evidence to support the contribution
- Supporting evidence has used laboratory or field experiments so cause and effect conclusions can be drawn.
- Theories supporting the contribution support one another
- It is not easy to remove the in-group/out-group behaviour
- It is likely that different circumstances leads to a decline in prejudice
- How does this help society?
- Understanding Obedience
- Psychological studies to support contribution.
- Milgram (1963)
- Hofling et al (1966)
- How does this help society?
- Can help us to understand the My Lai massacre
- Can also help us understand other brutal acts like the Holocaust
- Theories that may explain the issue.
- Agency Theory
- Evaluating the contribution.
- Evidence shows support towards blind obedience to an authority figure
- Supporting evidence used field and laboratory experiments so cause and effect conclusions can be drawn
- Obedience is hard to measure
- Reasons for not obeying also need to be studied.
- Psychological studies to support contribution.
- Understanding Prejudice
- Learning
- Token Economy
- Theories that explain the issue.
- Operant conditioning
- Psychological research to support contribution.
- Evaluating the conribution.
- The theory behind it is based on strong evidence.
- Staff members can be trained to use the programme so specialists do not need to be used
- The behaviours learnt do not transfer into new environments
- Evidence comes from animal studies so could be hard to generalise to humans.
- How does this help society?
- It helps shape and model desired behaviour
- Theories that explain the issue.
- Systematic Desensitisation
- Theories that explain the issues
- Classical conditioning
- Psychological studies that support contribution
- Capafons et al (1998)
- Evaluating the contribution.
- Therapy is ethical because the patient is involved in decision making throughout.
- The therapy does not always need a therapist as well.
- Evidence comes mainly from animal studies which are hard to generalise to humans.
- It only works for specific phobias.
- How does this help society?
- Helps treat phobias
- Helps people to function normally in society again
- Theories that explain the issues
- Token Economy
- Psychodynamic
- Psychoanalysis
- Theories that may explain the issue.
- Unconscious, pre-conscious and conscious states
- Psychological studies to support contribution.
- Little Hans
- Evaluating the contribution.
- A cure is very likely
- Psychoanalysis works with some people
- The concepts are not measurable
- Untitled
- How does this help society?
- It can help those with mental illnesses
- Society maintains mental health
- Theories that may explain the issue.
- Understanding Gender
- Theories that may explain the issue.
- Psychosexual stages
- Oedipus and Electra complex
- Psychological studies to support contribution.
- Little Hans
- Evaluating the contribution.
- There is evidence that females will marry someone like their father.
- Untitled
- How does this help society?
- Helps undersatnd gender differences and behaviour.
- Theories that may explain the issue.
- Psychoanalysis
- Biological
- Cognitive
- The cognitive interview
- Theories that explain the issues.
- Reconstructive Memory
- Leading Questions
- Psychological studies that support contribution
- Fisher & Geiselman (1992)
- Loftus and Palmer
- Evaluating the contribution.
- There is strong experimetnal evidence that supports the contribution
- The cogntivie interview was created because of findings from other research.
- Memon et al (1997)
- It is also suggested that how a witness is questioned will not matter as recall will not be perfect.
- How does this help society?
- The cognitive interview is to help reduce problems with eyewitness memory.
- Theories that explain the issues.
- Problems with eyewitness memory
- Theories that explain the issues.
- Leading Questions
- Cue Dependecy Theory
- Levels of Processing
- Psychological studies that support contribution.
- Yuille & Cutshall (1986)
- Loftus and Palmer (1974)
- Yarmey
- Evaluating the contribution.
- Evidence into the contribution use experiments so cause and effect conclusions can be drawn
- Findings into eyewitness testimnoy have been applied to courts
- Yuille and Cutshall's study shows different findings to other studies
- It is ethically hard to study real witnesses
- How does this help society?
- Help in court cases.
- Can help jurys make the correct decision when convicting offenders.
- Theories that explain the issues.
- The cognitive interview
- Social
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