Individual Vs Situational Flashcards

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What is a situational explanation?

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D= individuals are influenced by situations and do not behave in the same way in different situations 
I= reductionist
A= social, behaviourist 
M= field experiments
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2 pieces of research that support situational explanation

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  • Milgram= prestigious UNI, lab coat, paid, random assignment of teacher
  • Piliavin= race/type of victim, impact of model and impact of amount of people, cost-reward analysis
  • Watson+Rayner= association of rat and loud sound caused phobia
  • Wilkstrom+Tafel= disadvantaged neighbourhoods cause criminality
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2 pieces of research supporting individual explanations

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  • Sperry= due to corpus callosum being severed coz of epilepsy
  • Freud= Little Hans phobia stemmed from individual being in phallic stage
  • Wender= genetic cause of depression
  • Wilson&Daly= gender as a cause of crime
  • Bruner= genetics as a cause of crime
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Pros and cons of situational explanations?

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Pros:
•offer many practical applications (Bandura: study of aggression)
•field experiments= high ecological validity

Cons:
•reductionist= ignores personality differences, riecher & Haslam
•PPs deceived= Milgram

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Similarity and differences between individual and situational explanations

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Similarity= collect both quantitative and qualitative data (thigpen&cleckley

Differences= individual relies on self report and unreliable (griffiths)
situational relies on experimental methods (Watt: funhaler, field experiment, 32 Australian children, repeated measures using funhaler+questionnaire)

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What is the definition of a dispositional explanation?

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D= individuals are the ones who produce behaviour 
I= reductionist 
A= biological, developmental
M= lab experiments
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