usefullness

Question 1

define usefulness

Answer 1

Measuring the extent to which research has practical applications

Question 2

How is milgram useful

Answer 2

Can be used by legitimate authority figures such as police or teachers to try and encourage following rules

Question 3

How is kohlberg useful

Answer 3

Can be used by teachers to identify what stage their students are in and change their teaching tactics accordingly

Question 4

How is pilliavin useful in a negative way

Answer 4

Can be used as a mechanism for scams eg criminals can appear to need help to get people in before stealing from them

Question 5

How is bandura useful in a negative way

Answer 5

Can be used to encourage children to display bad behaviours perhaps to join an extremist group

Question 6

Two strengths of conducting useful research

Answer 6

-it can have a positive useful applications that can improve the quality of people’s lives
-if research is likely to have practical applications then it is more likely to attract funds eg research grants, making it more likely that the research will actually be carried out

Question 7

Two drawbacks of carrying out useful research

Answer 7

-if two people on opposite sides eg lawyers both make the same psychological insight then the usefulness of the research is cancelled out
-if it is all important that the research is useful then this could put pressure on researchers to breach some of the ethical guidelines