Issues And Debates In Topics Flashcards
Types of conformity, explanations for conformity.
Conformity to social roles, Zimbardo
Explanations for obedience
Dispositional explanation for obedience
Culture bias, research only done in western cultures
Minority influence
Role of social influence processes in social change
Multi store model of memory
Mechanistic reductionism, comparing human mind to computer processes.
Working memory model
Mechanistic reductionism, comparing human mind to computer processes.
Types of long term memory
Explanations for forgetting
Factors affecting accuracy of eyewitness testimony
Reductionism, doesn’t take into account other factors that could influence it.
Improving the accuracy of eyewitness testimony
Caregiver-infant interactions, stages of attachment, role of the father
Animal studies of attachment
Ethical issues - immoral to test on animals and use their fear to generate results
Reductionist - cannot apply an animal mind to a human mind, as lack of higher order thinking skills
Learning theory and monotropic theory
Environmental determinism - you cannot unlearn what you learn, no free will in behaviour
Reductionism - learning theory is only aspect of behaviour, doesn’t allow influence of other factors.
Ainsworth’s strange situation
Culture bias - only studied in western cultures and attempted to make universal
Cultural variations in attachment, van ijzendoorm.
Bowlbys’ theory of maternal deprivation, Romanian orphan studies
Environmental determinism - once deprived behaviour cannot be reversed
Socially sensitive - mothers are blamed for how children turn out
Nomothetic - orphan study findings are attempted to be made universal, however it is an incredibly unique situation and will not fit other cultures etc.
Influence of early attachment on adult relationships
Environmental determinism - your quality of relationships is based on childhood experiences, no free will and no chance to reverse this.
Origins of psychology
Learning approaches: behavioural approach and social learning theory
Environmental reductionism - reduces behaviour down to a product of stimulus + response
Cognitive approach
Mechanistic reductionism - compares human mind to computer models.
Biological approach
Biological reductionism - reduces behaviour down to a product of genes and neurons.
Determinism - we cannot change our genes therefore behaviour is innate and unchangeable.
Psychodynamic approach
Idiographic + nomothetic - case studies were made universal, ignoring individuak differences,
Holism - attempts to study the human as an indivisible system, using lots of different factors to explain mental illnesses.
Humanistic psychology
Idiographic - attempts to explain the individual self.
Holism - studies the human as an indivisible system.
Definitions of abnormality
Socially sensitive - people who aren’t apart of social norms are deemed abnormal
Reductionist - some definitions don’t take into account all important factors
Characteristics of mental disorders
