Strengths and weaknesses PY1
- Created by: Hannah
- Created on: 13-05-13 13:14
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- S&W
- Cognitive
- Scientific
- clear predictions/ discover causal relationships
- Loftus and Zanni
- Heider and Simmel
- clear predictions/ discover causal relationships
- Mediational
- Focuses on the important 'Processes' that occur between stimulus and response - Black box
- Perception and memory affect the way we respond to the world around us
- Focuses on the important 'Processes' that occur between stimulus and response - Black box
- Nature and Nurture
- Looks and internal and external factors such as FAE ignores other factors
- Genes, hormones and social factors ignored
- Looks and internal and external factors such as FAE ignores other factors
- Deterministic
- Schemas - direct experiences
- Cognitive development is the dev of schemas. Child call everything with hair and four legs dog - later knows cat and dog
- Sterotypes
- Cognitive development is the dev of schemas. Child call everything with hair and four legs dog - later knows cat and dog
- Schemas - direct experiences
- Scientific
- Psycho
- Nature and Nurture
- Nature Id, Ego, Superego
- Nurture Childhood Experience
- Useful
- Freud recognised psychological factors could explain physical symptoms
- Childhood dev = Critical , Who we are and become is influenced by our childhood
- Deterministic
- Childhood experiences - No free will in who we become or how we behave
- Reductionist
- Id, ego and superego and early childhood experiences - ignores biochemistry and gentics
- Nature and Nurture
- Biological
- Scientific
- Psychosurgry- removing parts of the brain
- Control , causal relationships
- Psychosurgry- removing parts of the brain
- Successful Applications
- Selye - link stress to illness
- Led to many forms of treatment for mental disorders
- Selye - link stress to illness
- Not Nurture
- Doest look at life experiences and psychological factors such as how we think and feel
- Nomothetic
- When stressed some people produce higher levels of adrenaline than others
- Women and men different biological systems
- When stressed some people produce higher levels of adrenaline than others
- Scientific
- Behaviourist
- Scientific
- Bandura / skinner
- Successful applications
- Teachers use operant conditioning
- Positive /negative reinforcement have helped shaped behaviour
- Teachers use operant conditioning
- Uses animals
- Generalised to humans
- Determinist
- Behaviour is influenced by environment stimuli (classical conditioning) or rewards/ punishment (operant)
- No free wiill
- Behaviour is influenced by environment stimuli (classical conditioning) or rewards/ punishment (operant)
- Scientific
- Cognitive
- Scientific
- clear predictions/ discover causal relationships
- Loftus and Zanni
- Heider and Simmel
- clear predictions/ discover causal relationships
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