Usefulness Flashcards
Sherif
Reduces prejudice with superordinate goals
Breaking down groups to reduce prejudice
Create prejudice (more socially sensitive)
Baddeley
Focus on semantic revision
Looking at brain damage
Rehearsal to get into LTM- for dementia etc
Raine
Screening
Changes brain activity
Court cases
No cause and effect
Watson and Rayner
Advertising
Therapies for phobias
Anti-smoking pictures
Political ads ‘strong and stable’
Rosenhan
Diagnosis validity/improvement
Treating people in hospitals/not dehumanising etc
Social
Key question: Helping people get out of cults
Helping deradicalise people
Milgram: stop soldiers committing atrocities
Cognitive
Dementia
Help people with dyslexia using WMM
EWT/avoiding leading questions
Biological
Hormones in HRT/trans health care
Psychodynamic therapy
Drug treatments
Learning
SLT: role models, age restrictions
Operant conditioning: TEP/ABA
Clinical
Medication
CBT
Screening for those at risk
Diagnosis
Child
Day care
How to raise children to make them secure
CBT/ABA for autism
How are studies not useful?
Poor sample
Low ecological validity/mundane realism
Validity points/reductionism
‘Scalability’
Long lasting
Alternative explanations
“Therefore, the results might not be applicable…”
