Evaluation of biological approach

Question 1

Is biological approach deterministic or free will?

Answer 1

Deterministic
Believes humans have no control over behaviour
especially in psychosurgery and drug therapy where individuals are encouraged to allow the therapist to take control of medication and surgery
Individual has no free will over their treatment or medication
The individual is not responsible for their biology so they can’t take any blame for their actions because they are naturally occurring during to physical factors

Question 2

Evaluation of the biological approach?
Reductionist vs hollism?

Answer 2

It’s reductionist, didn’t take into account a broad range of factors when looking at behaviours. It’s ll states that behaviour can be reduced down to physical factors
E.g. mental illnesses such as schizophrenia are treated with medication such as anti psychotics, biological potentially reduces cause for schizophrenia to high level of dopamine
Where there may be other factors involved such as lifestyle, family trauma
This is weekness

Question 3

Application for biological aproach?

Answer 3

Strength as it can treat illnesses with no known cause leading to the mentally ill ti live a relitivket normal life as well as giving an equal chance to thwre pay
E.G, Cherek er al did a study on aggressive men giving them SSRIs for 21 days and found aggression levels dropped significantly

Question 4

Evaluation of biological approach
Idiographic be Nomonthemic?

Answer 4

Strength is that it’s nomonthemic
It’s agile to develop the theory that can be applied as laws in behaviour
E.g. Raine found that criminal behaviour is due to brain abnormalities which ultimately is a strength as it helps society to rehabilitate

Question 5

Evaluating the biological aproach nature vs nurture?

Answer 5

Nature and a weekness
Stating that behaviour has a physical cause and not environment
Raine found that brain loves are responsible for hevahour and neurotransmitters
Weakness as we may be failing people if we are ignoring causes of mental health focusing solely on biological causes

Question 6

Evaluations biological aproach- is it scientific?

Answer 6

Yes strength because psychologist create hypothesis se objective he methods such as experiments meaning it can be realsie in more scientific oy
An example is raines reaserch as he used pet scans and radioactive tracers and used variables e.g. matching mental health issues
Overall a strength because it helps psychologists be a trusted dicible keeps to scientific