Review 1

Question 1

Areas of Psychology?

Answer 1

. Social
. Cognitive
. Developmental
. Biological
. Individual Differences

Question 2

Social?

Answer 2

Behaviour influenced by others

Question 3

Cognitive?

Answer 3

Internal mental processes

Question 4

Developmental?

Answer 4

Looks at how feelings, thinking and behaviour changes in a person’s life.

Question 5

Biological?

Answer 5

Study relationship between the mind and the body

Question 6

Individual Differences?

Answer 6

Examines the psychological differences between people

Question 7

Perspectives of Psychology

Answer 7

. Behavioural
. Psychodynamic

Question 8

Evaluating the core studies

Answer 8

. Sampling bias
. Ethnocentrism
. Practical application
. Internal Validity
. External Validity
. Reliability
. Ethics
. Research methods
. Type of data

Question 9

Debates

Answer 9

. Nature Vs Nurture
. Holism Vs Reductionism
. Free will Vs Determinism
. Situational Vs Individual
. Usefulness
. Psychology as a science
. Ethics
. Socially sensitive research

Question 10

THE SOCIAL AREA
(Strengths)

Answer 10

. Useful
. Changing the situation
. Use of deception
. Use of field experiment

Question 11

THE SOCIAL AREA
(Weaknesses)

Answer 11

. Difficult to separate social influences from the individual

. Deterministic and reductionistic
. Ethical issues
. Often have restricted samples