strength + weakness of psych areas (use debates) Flashcards
Strengths of Cognitive approach
Lab= control of EV= establish c+e
↳ grant- standardisation, headphones, same noise, same article of psychoimmunology, increases internal reliability + validity
↳loftus- two experiments to rest for change in memory due to leading q not response bias, standardisation
Practical application= useful
↳grant- student context-dependency effects for newly learned material for exams
↳loftus- unreliability of eye witness testimony
Psych as a science= scientific ways on finding internal mental processes
↳ hypothesis, objective, controlled experiment, deduction, validity, ect
Weakness of cognitive appraoch
Lab=artificial environment high controls so low in ecological validity
↳findings less generalisable to wider society since not true to real life
Reductionist view= simplifies the complex brain/ behaviour to an input process and output.
ignores biological processes involved
Strength of social approach
Practical application- academic understanding
↳obeying of authority evidence helps know how obeying of immoral acts occurs such as war
↳authority figure looking more professional have a larger influential ability
Nurture debate
↳we are all in an agentic state and when in situation/ environment we will be influenced accordingly, allows us to understand behaviours and see for future
High in ecalogical validity
↳ pilivian/ leviene- field experiments so are true to real life, results generalisable to wider society
High experimental realism
↳milgram- p’s had uncontrollable seizures an laughing fits due to the act of shocking another person
Weakness of social area
Low every day realism= lab
↳ electric shocks, whistleblowing
Deterministic
↳ the situation you are in WILL influence you behaviour without you in control, limits responsibility to those who do harmful things ‘based on situation in’
Unethical
↳no informed consent on covert observation on field + fully understand aims of the experiment
Strength of developmental area
Practical applications
↳chaney- medical regimes and incentives to help children participate while adding a positive experience to medicine. useful for child compliance and promoting good behaviour through operant conditioning
Weakness of developmental area
Determanistic
↳behaviour is determined by external forces acting on the person.
ignores other reasons fro aggressive behaviour
