Comparisons Between Ways Of Explaining Behaviour Using Different Themes

Question 1

What is it

Answer 1

It is a main issue and debate partly because of this lack of a single paradigm. A paradigm is a world view of something where there is agreement with one overall theory and research is all within that theory

Question 2

Social psych arguments

Answer 2

• 2 different theories of prejudice, social identity and realistic conflict, are used to explain prejudice
• issues of personality, situation, culture and gender, and their possible effects on obedience are different themes that can be compared
• issues of personality, culture and situation and their possible effects on prejudice are different themes

Question 3

Cognitive psych arguments

Answer 3

• 4 models o ideas about memory show different ways of explaining memory
• this might not be behaviour as such, more processing, though it can be said that recalling something is a behaviour
• there are themes in memory, such as how it is represented and which parts of the brain are responsible for which function

Question 4

Learning theories arguments

Answer 4

• 3 learning theories covered and compared
• similar themes such as importance of behaviour being learned and different themes such as the response following the stimulus
• SLT suggests not all behaviour comes from association or pattern of reinforcement, some behaviour comes from imitating a role model which is a different theme