Health Flashcards
Ethics
Human and animal
Aversion therapy
Practical issues
Generalising findings from animal studies to human behaviour
Reductionism
Use of methods such as exp, that study animals (olds and Milner) tend to isolate variables
Comparisons between ways of explaining behaviour using different themes
Different explanations for drug misuse, learning and biological
Psychology as a science
Using animal experiments to study drug misuse
Culture and gender
Cross cultural research
Gender - not specifically but Dixits findings
Nature nurture
Learning as opposed to biological explanations for drug misuse
An understanding of how psychological knowledge has developed over time
Rise of understanding about drug misuse - explanations for drug misuse
Issues of social control
Treating drug misuse as criminal and requiring treatment
Aversion therapy -> to patient
The use of psychological knowledge within society
Using understanding of drug misuse develop treatment ideas
Issues relating to socially sensitive research
Asking about drug habits when people are vulnerable