The biological approach in psychology

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1. A limitation of the approach is

  • It is reductionist as it explains behaviour and thought processes in terms of the actions of nerves and chemicals
  • it supports the nature side of the debate
  • it is scientific so is hard to disprove
  • many useful applications
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2. what did Bock and Goode study

  • Violent and aggressive mice
  • cats
  • Intellegence
  • Selective breeding

3. Outline 1 assumption of the biological approach in psychology

  • behaviour and thought processes do not have an innate biological bais
  • Human characteristics e.g intelligence are due to our genetic make-up
  • people are the same a computers
  • behaviour is learnt

4. A strength of the approach is

  • it uses scientific experimental procedures in its investigations
  • It is reductionist
  • It supports the nurture side
  • It is known by many people

5. Who supports the biological approach

  • Darwin and Bock & Goode
  • Smith and Lloyd
  • Darwin
  • Bock and Goode
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