Individual Differences Mind Map
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- Created on: 25-04-14 20:38
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- Individual Differences Approach
- Assumptions
- Questions the need to provide generalisations about human behaviour
- Studies are often focused on gender, cultural diversity, personality and pathological behaviour
- recognises that human condition is extremely diverse
- Strengths
- Research is often carried out using a wide range of methodologies
- Thigpen and Clekely use a case study single subject design where as Griffiths uses a quasi experiment with an independent measures deisgn
- Very useful with ready application to daily life
- Griffiths findings could be used to treat gambling addictions
- Research is often carried out using a wide range of methodologies
- Weaknesses
- Ethical issues surrounding highlighting people as 'different'
- Shown in Rosenhan's study were once a person is labelled as insane that label is hard to remove
- The Individual approach ignores that fact that somebody could be 'different' because of the situation they are but and only focuses on internal dispositions
- For example Eve White may have shown symptoms of MPD because of the expectations of being a wife in America 1950s
- Ethical issues surrounding highlighting people as 'different'
- Assumptions
- recognises that human condition is extremely diverse
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