FIRST YEAR PSYCHOLOGY: APPROACHES

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what is the biological approach?
when behaviour is biologically pre-determined and is innate. Physical factors such as hormones and the inheritance of genes will influence behaviour.
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what is the cognitive approach?
looks at the effect on our behaviour by looking at our perception, language , attention and memory
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what is the learning approach?
when behaviour is learnt from the environment
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what are the 2 theories that stem from the learning approach?
behaviourism, social learning theory
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what are demand characteristics?
changing your natural behaviour to help or hinder (mess up) the researcher
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what is the cognitive approach?

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