Social Flashcards
What are the strengths of Social Approach?
The approach can provide an explanation of a great many phenomenon and it can be useful in explaining prejudice and discrimination.
What are the weaknesses of the Social Approach?
Studies often use unrepresentative samples and are conducted in laboratories so lack ecological validity.
What is the Social Approach?
A major influence on people’s behaviour, thought processes and emotions are the environment they are exposed to and situational factors.
What are the similarities between the Social Approach and the Individual Diff. approach?
Both can help us explain differences in behaviour.
Both are based on ethnocentrism.
What are the differences between the Social Approach and the Individual Differences Approach?
Social focuses on how groups behave whereas I.D. focuses on individuals.
Social is more scientific.
What are the similarities between the Social Approach and the Developmental Approach?
Both use small samples for research
Both help explain a great many phenomenon.
What are the differences between the Social Approach and the Developmental Approach?
Social is likely to use snapshot studies whereas Developmental is likely to use longitudinal.
Social are often conducted in lab conditions whereas Dev are not
What are the similarities between the Social Approach and the Physiological Approach?
Both use lab experiments + lack EV
What are the differences between the Social Approach and Physiological Approach?
Physiological is solely nature whereas Social is a mixture of nature and nurture.
Physiological is reductionist whereas Social isn’t
What are the similarities between the Social Approach and the Psychodynamic Perspective?
Small sample and lack validity.
What are the differences between the Social Approach and the Psychodynamic Perspective?
Psychodynamic is based on qualitative data.
Psychodynamic uses very few participants whereas Social doesn’t necessarily.
What are the similarities between the Social Approach and the Behavioural Perspective?
Both use lab experiments and lack EV
What are the differences between the Social Approach and the Behavioural Perspective?
Social is based on Snapshot studies.
Behavioural use animals in their research
