Which explanation looks at some features or characteristics of the person?
Individual
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Which explanation looks at the wider context, including the social group, the physical environment?
Situational
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What are 2 strengths of the individual explanation?
Supports scientific research, allows predictions to be made, studies can be done on indivduals and not having to gain access to groups or looks at predisposition to certain behaviours
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What are 2 weaknesses of the individual explanation?
Supports reductionist views, cant be generalised, personality traits dont lead to the same behaviour, new traits may occur due to the situation.
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What are 2 strengths of the situatuional explanation?
provides explanations for group beahiours that may be deviant, evidence that people are not predisposed to act a certain way or supports that environmental factors can have an impact.
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What are 2 weaknesses of the situational explanation?
Difficult to replicate, lacks reliablity, low ecolocical cvalidity due to artifical environments or no room for individual differences
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Which approach is most likely to take a situational explanation?
behaviourist
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Which approach is most likely to take a individual explanation?
individual differences
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Which approch is most likely to be a mixture of both?
Developmental
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Which explanation will the psychodynamic perspective take?
Mixture of both but more individual
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Which explanation will the behaviourist perspective take?
Situational
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Which explanation looks at the wider context, including the social group, the physical environment?
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Situational
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What are 2 strengths of the individual explanation?
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What are 2 weaknesses of the individual explanation?
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What are 2 strengths of the situatuional explanation?
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