Individualistic Theories Flashcards
What was Banduras study
- Bobo doll
- Aimed to find out if children are likely to copy violent behaviours without reinforcement
What were Banduras 4 stages?
- Attention, watch
- Retention, remember
- Reproduce, copy
- Motivation, reward
Strengths of Bandura SLT
- Equal amount of girls and boys makes it higher in validity
- Didn’t know they were being watched, increases reliability
Limitations of Bandura
- Ethical issues, parents did not give consent
- Lacks ecological validity
What did Freud say we have to go to understand behaviour?
- Examine early childhood experiences
What were Freud 3 parts of personality?
- ID
- Ego
- Superego
What is the Id?
- Pleasure principle
- Controls selfish desires that satisfy our needs
What is the ego?
- Reality principle
- Makes our conscious balanced
What is the superego?
- Morality principle
- Tells is good things to do that questions our selfish desires
What happens if we have a strong id?
- Overpower the superego and can influence decision making
What happens if we have a weak ego?
- Id overpowers the superego
What happens if we have a deviant superego?
- Results i’m not knowing what’s right or wrong
- This can cause criminality
Strengths of Freud
- He used in depth case studies in his research
- Freud provided some new treatments for patients with mental health problems
Limitations of Freud
- Unscientific as there is no proof that the unconscious exists
- Only used qualitative methods, not scientific/replicable
