Psychology: strengths and weaknesses of different approaches
- Created by: Patience Davies
- Created on: 09-02-13 20:29
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- Different Approaches in Psychology
- The Social approach
- reductionist so it may underestimate the importance of other factors that may also influence behavior such as individual differences
- Often breaks ethical issues such as informed consent and it may inflict psychological harm
- Reducing tyranny in institutions such as prisons
- Can offer advice to emergency services about helping in the case of an emergency
- Train armed forces about the dangers of following extreme orders
- The cognitive approach
- Provided explanations that other animals other than humans are capable of using language
- Shows the influence leading questions can have on behaviour
- Can help improve the diagnosis of autism in adults
- often relies on self report techniques which can be affected by factors such as demand characteristics
- reductionist so ignores the complexity of human functioning and factors that could also affect behavior such as social factors
- The Social approach
- The cognitive approach
- Provided explanations that other animals other than humans are capable of using language
- Shows the influence leading questions can have on behaviour
- Can help improve the diagnosis of autism in adults
- often relies on self report techniques which can be affected by factors such as demand characteristics
- reductionist so ignores the complexity of human functioning and factors that could also affect behavior such as social factors
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