strengths and weaknesses of PY1 full
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- Created on: 01-05-15 13:30
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- strengths and weaknesses
- Cognitive
- contributions to society
- Has contributed to our knowledge of mental health and memory
- Miller's magic 7 study of short-term memory
- Becks Negative triad study. Negative view of ourselves, the world and our future.
- Has contributed to our knowledge of mental health and memory
- reductionist
- Ignores environmental factors.
- Brown and Harris' study on depression
- Ignores environmental factors.
- computer analogy
- Over simplistic. Comparing human mind's to a computer undermines our complexity.
- scientific methodolgy
- High control over variables to establish cause and effect of behaviour caused by internal processes.
- Peterson and Peterson's study of STM
- High control over variables to establish cause and effect of behaviour caused by internal processes.
- contributions to society
- psychodynamic
- interpretation of therapist
- Meanings have to be interpreted by individual therapists which could differ.
- In dream analysis one psychologist may believe symbols represent something different to another psychologist.
- Meanings have to be interpreted by individual therapists which could differ.
- physical illnesses can have psychological causes
- First time that people accepted that there was something wrong with people even if it didn't look like it on the surface. widely accepted today.
- Before people suffering with shell shock from the wars were seen as traitors. Accepted after Freud released his theory.
- First time that people accepted that there was something wrong with people even if it didn't look like it on the surface. widely accepted today.
- Childhood affects our adult behaviour and personality.
- People can have mental illnesses as an adult due to their childhood. At no fault of their won.
- Cannot be proven true or false.
- No access to the unconscious and therefore we cannot prove whether or not our ID or superego affect our behaviour.
- interpretation of therapist
- biological
- Reductionalist
- ignores environmental factors.
- People may be depressed because of their surrounding and situations they are in and not necessarily a lack in serotonin or other bio-chemicals.
- ignores environmental factors.
- Deterministic
- All of our behaviour is pre-determined by our genes or by neurotransmitters. We do not have free will or are unable to make decisions about our own behaviour.
- Eyesenk believed that 50-80% of our 1Q ( our intelligence) is inherited.
- If we lack the neurotransmitter GABA then we are likely to display behaviours linked to anxiety
- All of our behaviour is pre-determined by our genes or by neurotransmitters. We do not have free will or are unable to make decisions about our own behaviour.
- scientific methodology
- Able to control variables and establish cause and effect. Theories are falsifiable.
- Selye's GAS- manipulated variables to establish cause and effect.
- Able to control variables and establish cause and effect. Theories are falsifiable.
- contribution to society
- Has been applied to health, therapies, sports and education.
- Psychosurgery and ECT to treat mental disorders.
- GAS - Knowledge of stress and how it affects humans.
- Has been applied to health, therapies, sports and education.
- Reductionalist
- behavourist
- Reductionalist
- Ignores biological and cognitive factors such as our internal process and genes.
- scientific methodology
- The behavourist approach prefers the lab method as it's easier to control variables and establish cause and effect.
- Pavlov's study
- Bandura's bobo doll study
- The behavourist approach prefers the lab method as it's easier to control variables and establish cause and effect.
- Animal research
- The behavourist approach uses animals in research which can be a weakness as generalising animal behaviour to human behaviour can be in correct and invalid.
- Pavlov's Dogs
- Skinner's pigeons
- Skinner's rats
- The behavourist approach uses animals in research which can be a weakness as generalising animal behaviour to human behaviour can be in correct and invalid.
- contributions to society
- Has been applied to education, child rearing and advertising.
- Classical conditioning- children may be rewarded or punished and then learn to associate the behaviour with the consequence to do it ( or not do it) again.
- Has been applied to education, child rearing and advertising.
- Reductionalist
- Cognitive
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