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Approaches: Comparison Flashcards

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What can you compare approaches with

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  • Views on development
  • Nature vs Nurture
  • Determinism vs Free Will
  • Reductionism vs Holism
  • Treatments etc
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  • Views on development

Behaviourist Approach

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Does not offer stages but shows how learning is continuous throughout life

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  • Views on development

Social Learning Theory

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Does not offer stages but shows how learning Is continuous throughout life

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  • Views on development

Cognitive Approach

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Contributed to our understanding of brain development and our development of schemas

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  • Views on development

Biological Approach

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Maturation is key

Genetically determined changes influence our behaviour and characteristics

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  • Views on development

Psychodynamic Approach

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Presents most coherent theory of child development showing each stage
But stops at teens

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  • Nature vs Nurture

Behaviourist Approach

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Nurture
‘Born as blank slates’
Learn through experience

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  • Nature vs Nurture

Social Learning theory

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Nurture
‘Born as blank slates’
Learn through imitation and observation

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  • Nature vs Nurture

Cognitive Approach

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Both
Processes and schemas come from nature
These can be developed and refined though experience (nurture)

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  • Nature vs Nurture

Biological Approach

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Nature
‘Anatomy is destiny’
Everything psychological is at first biological
behaviour due to genetic blueprints we inherit from parents

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  • Nature vs Nurture

Psychodynamic Approach

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Both
Behaviour often driven from biological instincts
But relationships with parents effect development

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  • Nature vs Nurture

Humanistic

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Nurture

Friends and family have impact on self concept

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  • Reductionism vs Holism

Behaviourist appraoch

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Reductionism

Breaks down behaviour into stimulus-respone

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  • Reductionism vs Holism

Social Learning Theory

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Less Reductionist
Breaks down behaviour into key processes
BUT
also looks into meditational processes

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  • Reductionism vs Holism

Cognitive Approach

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Machine Reductionism

Ignores impact of emotion

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  • Reductionism vs Holism

Biological Approach

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Biological Reductionist

Breaks it down into genes and neurons

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  • Reductionism vs Holism

Psychodynamic Approach

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Reduces it down into influences of sexual drives
BUT
also presents personality as a holistic thing

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  • Reductionism vs Holism

Humanistic

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HOLISM

Investigating all aspects of individual including those they interact with

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  • Determinism vs Free Will

Behaviourist Approach

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HARD DETERMINISM
Environmentally determined
By external factors that we’re unable to control

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  • Determinism vs Free Will

Social Learning Theory

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Reciprocal Determinism

Aswell as being influenced by environment we also exert influence and choice

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  • Determinism vs Free Will

Biological Approach

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HARD DETERMINISM
Genetic Determinism
All behaviour is innate

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  • Determinism vs Free Will

Psychodynamic Approach

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HARD DETERMINISM
Psychic Determinism
Behaviour from unconscious mind

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  • Determinism vs Free Will

Humanistic Approach

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Free will

active agents

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  • Treatments etc

Behaviourist Approach

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Behavioural therapy

- systematic desensitisation

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  • Treatments etc

Social Learning Theory

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Not much

can look at dysfunctional role models

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  • Treatments etc

Cognitive approach

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CBT

for depression

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  • Treatments etc

Biological Approach

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Drug therapy
mental disorders
regulate imbalance of chemicals in brain

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  • Treatments etc

Psychodynamic Approach

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Psychoanalysis has some success as therapy but only works for certain patients as requires exploring and talking a lot about past

29
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  • Treatments etc

Humanistic Approach

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Rogers therapy

client centred therapy

Psychology - PAPER 2 (16 decks)

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