Approaches

FOR EACH APPROACH YOU MUST NO AT MIN.:

A01

• 3 assumptions
• 1 research methods

A02

• 2 strengths
• 2 weaknesses
• 1 debate link
• 1-2 compare and contrast to another approach
• 2 topic links

3 ASSUMPTIONS                                                  1 DEBATE LINK

• Genes                                                               Nature/Nurture or Free will/Determinist
• Evolution
• Causal Level of Analysis                                  COMPARE/CONTRAST   Behaviourist

RESEARCH METHOD                                          2 TOPIC LINKS     crime      gender

• experimental methods/animal research

2 STRENGTHS

• scientific
• empirical studies

2 WEAKNESSES

• reductionist
• determinist

3 ASSUMPTIONS                                                         1 DEBATE LINK

• all behaviour is learnt                                               Nurture/Nature or Determinism or
• Operant Conditioning                                               Reductionist/Holism
• Classical Condition

RESEARCH METHOD                                                  COMPARE/CONTRAST 

•  experimental/lab based/animal research                 Biology/Cognative

2 STRENGTHS                                                              2 TOPIC LINKS  Crime  Autism

• scientific                                                                    Child Dev.
• behaviour modification (used as therapy)

2 WEAKNESSES

• environmentally deterministic
• humans are passive (dehumanises people)

3 ASSUMPTIONS                                                            1 DEBATE LINK

• Bridge between Behaviourist/Cognative                     Nurure over Nature, but stands
• Observational learning                                                in the middle of all 4 other debates
• ARRM (attention, retention, replication, motivation)  

RESEARCH METHOD                                                    COMPARE/CONTRAST

• Labs/Observation                                                       Behaviorist, Cognative

2 STRENGTHS                                                               2 TOPIC LINKS

• less reductionist than Bio and Behav                        Gender, Crime
• explains cultural differences

2 WEAKNESSES

• no explaination of abstract ideas
• doesn't give explainations of HOW cog processes work

3 ASSUMPTIONS                                                               1 DEBATE LINK  Reductionist

• Humans are information processors                              COMPARE/CONTRAST 
• Mind = Computer processor (input/output etc)              
• Working model of Memory                                             Behvaiourism, SLT

RESEARCH METHODS                                                     2 TOPIC LINKS

• Experimental/Lab based                                                RAF, Cog and Law

2 STRENGTHS

• Nature AND Nurture
• Applied to CBT therapy (used widely)

2 WEAKNESSES

• Sees humans as mechanical
• Models are over simplified

3 ASSUMPTIONS                                                      1 DEBATE LINK

• structure of mind (conscious/unconcious)            Psychology/Science
• structure of personality (ID, ego, superego)         Middle of all 4 other debates
• psychosexual stages of development

RESEARCH METHOD                                              COMPARE/CONTRAST

• case studies                                                         Biology, Humanism

2 STRENGTHS                                                         2 TOPIC LINKS

• case studies in depth                                           Gender,  Crime
• middle positions in most debates

2 WEAKNESSES

• unscientific
• unfalsifiable

3 ASSUMPTIONS                                                             1 DEBATE LINK

• Roger's free will                                                          freewill/determinism or
• actual/ideal self                                                           holism/reductionism
• Maslows hierachy of needs and self actualisation

RESEARCH METHODS                                                 COMPARE/CONTRAST

• CCT (client centred therapy)                       Psychodynamic, behaviourism or biological

2 STRENGTHS                                                              2 TOPIC LINKS

• supportive nature of cct                                            crime, cognition and law
• alterntaive to science

2 WEAKNESSES

• subjective
• unscientific

3 ASSUMPTIONS                                                   1 DEBATE LINK

• Pick n mix                                                          all debates
• Trimodal model
• Types of eclectic                                               COMPARE/CONTRAST

RESEARCH METHODS                                         all

• ALL!                                                                  TOPIC LINKS

2 STRENGTHS                                                       all

• treatments e.g. CBT
• Too much emphasis on 1 approach may mean that details are missed in other theories

2 WEAKNESSES

• 'Jack of all trades' master of none
• irreconcilable differences  between approaches (can't always merge them)

COMPARE/CONTRAST

• all

• all