Individual Vs Situational

Question 1

Strengths

Weaknesses

Answer 1

+ if we can discover how to control behaviours which are provoked more by situation or individual such findings will be helpful to society
+opens up new directions for further studies
+relieves stress from parents if individual problems as it’s not due to their bad upbringing etc

• hard to distinguish
• when investigative situations they will always have low ev so not valid and if a natural setting hard to control
• reductionist to say one or the other

Question 2

Examples

Answer 2

Individual = raine and dabbs
Situational = Rosenhan and Bandura 

Rosenhan; because; abnormality is not a property of a person but heightened to be perceived as more extreme or not due to the situation and context (oral acquisitive)

Question 3

Define

Answer 3

Individual =dispositional - looks at the features of a person no explain an event 
Situational = will look at the wider context eg the social group or the physical environment. 
Eg a boy is aggressive to his class mates -- is it due to individual problems such as biology or is it because he was provoked by others which is situational