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in animal research guide lines how should animals be cared for

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  • animals must be housed when they are not being studied
  • animals must have companions if appropriate to their species
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how do animal ethics guidelines minimise impact on animals

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  • should should use the minimum amount of animals that is required
  • when possible alternatives must be used such as videos rather than live animals
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Ethical issues in research - Social

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-obedience research carries the risk of causing psychological harm
- however, issues of ethics were essential for the results
- social psych in the 50s and 60s would be considered wrong, for example lack of right to withdraw

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Ethical issues in research - Cognitive

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  • brain damage patients concern for protecting right to privacy and memory of consent
  • cognitive psych rarely goes against BPS Guidelines
  • use of filed experiments causes difficulty in gaining informed consent
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Ethical issues in research - Biological

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  • as tech has improved, access to models of brains an animals are more accessible
  • can be argued that Pps leave a study with more knowledge that might change the way they think of themselves
  • invasive surgeries on animals
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Ethical issues in research - Learning

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  • skinner used food deprivation to encourage animals to do tasks
  • pavlova dogs were immobilised which could lead to excessive stress
  • OP can lead to learned behaviours that can change someone
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Ethical Issues in research - Clinical

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  • in new drug treatments, Pps may be subjected to side effects
  • Sz patients are vulnerable and should be cared for to not cause unnecessary harm
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Ethical issues in research - Sherif

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  • children were not allowed to call home causing stress
  • prizes of pocket knives were given to adolescents (unnessecary risk)
  • parents were not informed of the study
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Ethical Issues in research - Baddeley

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  • Baddeley used necessary deception to avoid demand characteristics (they did not know the full aims), which would have affected informed consent. - - he did gain their consent to take part.
  • overall highly ethical
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Ethical issues in research - Raine et al

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  • the murderers were taken off their meds 2 weeks prior which could reduce QOL
  • they were injected with a radioactive substance which can cause harm
  • all Pps provided consent to take part in the study
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Ethical issues in research - Watson and Rayner

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  • the mother withdrew Albert showing that alberts was subjugated to high levels of stress
  • Little Albert was unable to give his consent and didnt know what was happening
  • Researchers did not know how long effects would last
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Ethical issues in research - Rosenhan

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  • Pseudo patients had no way out of the hospital which could be stressful
  • The patients were subjected to harsh treatment from the staff and witnessed abuse
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Practical issues - Social

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  • Burger, had a standardised procedure which was controlled which lead to similar results
  • Milgram, lacked generalisability
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Practical issues - Cognitive

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  • case studies can not be generalised to the population
  • Bartletts war of the Ghost cannot be replicated as Pps were retested at random times
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Practical issues - Learning

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  • Pavlovs Dogs have both low generalisability and ecological validity
  • Bandura has standardised procedure
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Practical issues - Biological

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  • Leve et al, had high generalisability as he used 360 families
  • Brendgen had ecological validity and inter rater reliability
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Practical issues - Clinical

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  • Goldstein, longitudinal study
  • Williams et al had set procedure
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For practical issues what do you use to evaluate?

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What is reductionism?

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breaking something down into parts to study. then the findings from the ‘parts’ are put together.

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What is Holism?

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when something is studied as a whole

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Reductionism - Social

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  • Latane in social impact theory reduces obedience to an equation and ignores interactions and other individuals
  • Milgram reduces obedience to authority
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Reductionism - Cognitive

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  • studying memory in the Lab is not the same as in real life, it ignores the environment
  • the WMM divides the STM into slave systems without recognising the connections. this can be also be said about the MSMM
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Reductionism - Learning

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  • Skinner explains behaviour as an outcome of previous behaviour
  • Operant conditioning explains learned behaviour as a result of stimulus - response connection
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Reductionism - Biological

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  • focusing on aggression when studying the brain means reducing behaviour to individual structures
  • there are cultures that show higher levels of aggression which suggests SLT
  • animal studies reduce what is being studied to a small peice of brain function
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Reductionism - Clinical

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  • Simplifies a complex behaviour by purely focusing on biological factors
  • the dopamine explanation over focuses on the biological explanation
  • Family therapy is a good treatment plan as it considers multiple components
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Reductionism - Sherif et al

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  • didn’t look at factors that could affect prejudice such as culture
  • only looked at competition as instilling prejudice
  • simplified aggression to verbal and physical
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Reductionism - Baddeley

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  • there is more to memory than recall, for example the emotional meaning to words and memory
  • was a lab study so did not account for environment
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Reductionism - Raine et al

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  • Ignored environmental factors such as SLT
  • Jim Fallon said trauma and trigger is needed
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Reductionism - Watson and Rayner

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  • only looked as CC as a way to induce a phobia
  • only looked at a simple specific phobia not complex
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Reductionism - Rosenhan

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  • Symptoms of Sz was simplified to three words
  • objective data was used more than subjective experience
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Psych as a science - Social

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  • the intention for social psych was to become more scientific by using experiments
  • milligram controlled variables to carefully manipulate
  • however social psych cannot be said to be generalisable to the real world
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Psych as a science - Cognitive

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  • is the most scientific perspective as it uses Lab contours and scientific methods
  • Bartletts study lacked controls and standardisation
  • Central Executive has limited Experimental support as it is so vague
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Psych as a science - Learning

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  • conditioning theories use experimental controls to isolate the IV and the DV.
  • A lot of animals studies used recoding the validity of Learning
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Psych as a science - Biological

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  • brain scanning is an objective way of measuring brain activity
  • environment can be carefully controlled so extraneous variables can be removed
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Psych as a science - Clinical

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  • evidence for explanations can come from testing such as gene testing
  • clinical psych as developed through brain scanning
  • many lab experiments done to increase credibility
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Psych as a science - Sherif et al

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  • controlled variables as the groups were matched for sporting ability and IQ
  • no replicable as field experiment
  • Pps not generalisable
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Psych as a science - Baddeley

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  • has internal validity
  • data was objective
  • lab procedure and it had standardised procedure
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Psych as a science - Raine et al

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  • PET scans are objective
  • used matched pairs so controlled variables
  • lab so controlled but lacked ecological validity
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Psych as a science - Watson and Rayner

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  • not generalisable
  • the study was filmed which increased reliability
  • lacks ecological and task validity
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Psych as a science - Rosenhan

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  • American sample so lacks generalisability
  • cannot be replicated as a field study
  • subjective as results came from notes from the pseudo patients
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Development over time - Social

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  • social psych has changed over time due to historical events such as the holocaust
  • in 1920s race theories were made to legitimise inequalities
  • 1960s research into prejudice became focused on group dynamic
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Development over time - Cognitive

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  • MSM was the first model
  • MSM was basic so the WM was made
  • Episodic buffer was added later on
  • Baddeley used evidence from scans and case studies to add to his model
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Development over time - Learning

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  • much of the knowledge has stayed the same but how it is used has altered.
    -treatments have changed from flooding to SD
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Development over time - Biological

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  • brain scanning has developed over time (from MRI to fMRI)
  • early treatments for psychological conditions have changed and now are only carried out in emergencies
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Development over time - Clinical

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  • 1st edition of the DSM was published over 60 years ago and there has been 4 more versions since
  • new editions have incorporated culture
  • development of treatments from typical drugs to a typical
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Development over time - Sherif et al

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  • Sherifs study lead to RCT
  • which was then implemented in society to help relieve prejudice through super ordinate goals. for example, team work between gangs
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Development over time - Baddeley

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  • found differences in the way STM and LTM encoded
  • as Baddeley did more experiments he added to his model
  • Baddeley used brain scanning and case studies to develop his work
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Development over time - Raine et al

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  • recent development in brain scanning has allowed Raine to PET scans to measure brain activity
  • lab with highly controlled procedure show that research methods have not changed over time and are still highly effective
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Development over time - Watson and Rayner

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  • Showed how phobias developed over time with continuous pairing of the loud bang with the white rat.
  • This led to the development of a huge body of research in Behaviourism, e.g. Skinner who investigated the role of operant conditioning.
  • It also led to the development of treatments, for example aversion therapy and then systematic desensitisation, based on the principles of classical conditioning.
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Development over time - Rosenhan

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  • lead to changes of the DSM which keep getting improved to keep up with conditions.
  • ## reduces abuse of power by staff by implementing CCTV
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Explaining behaviour - Social

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  • Milgram showed how authority figures can cause obedience, however its describes instead of explaining how
  • Latane shows what causes obedience, however in over simplifies human behaviour
  • robbers cave supports RCT however competition is sufficient may not be needed
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Explaining behaviour - Cognitive

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  • case studies such as HM show the effect go brain damage however not generalisable
  • War of Ghosts support r3constrictive memory however not a controlled study
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Explaining behaviour - Learning

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  • classical conditioning explains how phobias can be acquired, however use of animal studies. same with Skinner and Op Con
  • social learning theory shows imitation behaviour by models and Bandura supports
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Explaining behaviour - Biological

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  • Dabbs showed how Hormones affect aggression
  • Darwin shoed how evolution affects behaviour however dare ins theory was not falsified
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Explaining behaviour - Clinical

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  • Social causation theory suggest sits the environment, this is supported by Vassos
  • Tenn using Amphetamines showed how high levels of D affect behaviour and conditions
  • Beck and ellis is a symptom not a cause
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Explaining behaviour - Sherif

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  • study suggests that prejudice has a natural basis and emerges spontaneously in the presence of competition emphasising the innate nature of prejudice
  • social psych is based on nurture where we are influenced by groups, so become prejudice towards others.
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Explaining behaviour - Baddeley

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  • the ability to encode acoustically and semantically is determined by nature
  • stimulating memory allows maintenance rehearsal
  • memory is something we are hardwired with
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Explaining behaviour - Raine et al

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  • his study suggests that nature is the cause of violent tendencies
  • however, Jim Fallon states we also have to have a traumatic childhood and a trigger
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Explaining behaviour - Watson and Rayner

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  • Albert was chosen as he did not have an initial reaction to the rat. this suggests that there is a cause and effect between associations.
  • however, Albert was chosen for his resilient personality, so this could have an effect on conditioning
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Explaining behaviour - Rosenhan

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  • Diagnosis all have the same symptoms so this suggests a biological basis for Sz
  • when Pps were diagnosed it was hard to be perceived otherwise, e.g. diary was abnormal. this shows a stigma which is nurture.
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Cultural and Gender issues - Social

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  • social theories explain behaviour as due to social circumstances which are not affected by gender.
  • Milgrams studies focused on men, making his research androcentric
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what is Androcentrism

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male entered, behaviour is judged on male standards

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what is ethnocentrism

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Judging other cultures by the standards and values of ones own culture

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what is etic and emic

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etic is when someone investigates a culture from an outside perspective
Emic is investigating cultural uniqueness ideally from an internal perspective

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Cultural and Gender issues - Cognitive

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  • Sebastian and Hernandez Gil found difference in digit span between cultures
  • memory is not affected by culture, it does not rely on schemas
  • gender difference in memory of facial emotions
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Cultural and Gender issues - Learning

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  • Learning theories are based on Nurture rather than nature, so different cultures will have different experiences.
  • male and females are treated differently based on gender stereotypes
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Cultural and Gender issues - Biological

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  • Hormonal differences between men and women
  • evolution, males are more likely to be aggressive.
  • little difference in culture as it looks at genetics
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Cultural and Gender issues - Clinical

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  • definition of abnormal behaviour differs depending on culture
  • DSM has changed to account for cultural differences
  • women are usually diagnosed later or misdiagnosed
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Cultural and Gender issues - Sherif

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  • 22 white boys, so behaviour can only explain boys behaviour, androcentric
  • collectivist cultures value sharing and have lower levels of prejudice.
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Cultural and Gender issues - baddeley

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  • both men and women can be applied to this study
  • has Cultural bias as was done in America
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Cultural and Gender issues - Raine et al

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  • done in the Uni of Cali so is culturally restrictive
  • sample only had two women, so has Beta bias
  • Brain structure does not differ greatly between culture or gender
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Cultural and Gender issues - Watson and Rayner

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  • one white male was delibaralty chosen for his resilience
  • however, CC is believed to be based on innate fear responses.
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Cultural and Gender issues - Rosenhan

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  • cultural bias as was only done in the states.
  • no gender bias as 5 men and 3 women were used
  • DSM is based on western Symptoms
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Nature Nurture - Social

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  • social psyche is predominantly nurture as it looks at the influence of groups
  • milligram was showing how obedience was a consequence of situation
  • personality from birth affects obedience, however some such as authoritarians is nurture
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Nature Nurture - Cognitive

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  • Cognitive approach assumes that we are born with a hardwire to perform certain functions
  • experience changes the way we remember (schema)
    -case studies show how memory can change through situation
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Nature Nurture - Learning

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  • Skinners work reduces work down to Nurture, learning through reward and punishment
  • Gender roles are learnt rather than biological
  • learning theories disregard mental processes when learning
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Nature Nurture - Biological

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  • Freud acknowledges the role of external factors
  • genes program behaviours e.g. MAOA
  • Bergen, genetic for physical aggression
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Nature Nurture - Clinical

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  • genetic predisposition for Sz
  • Diathesis stress model shows interaction between the two.
  • Ellis and Beck show how it is the environment
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Nature Nurture - Sherif

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  • ## prejudice emerges spontaneously through competition showing it is not innate rather a group influence

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