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What is the main focus of the behavioural approach? - ANSWER -The behavioral approach is only interested in studying behaviour that can be observed and measured. What is the behavioural approach built on? - ANSWER -- The use of lab experiments Behaviourists tried to maintain more control in their research so relied on lab experiments Animals in research? - ANSWER -Behaviourists support the use of animals in research, behaviourists suggested that learning is the same in all species so an...

What is the top-down approach? - ANSWER -From looking at the crime scene you work out the type of person who committed the crime What kind of approach is it (quantitative/qualitative)? - ANSWER -qualitative look at overall picture typologies What is it based on? - ANSWER -police experience and case studies explain the study of how they created the classification system: - ANSWER -interviewed 36 serial killers (Bundy/Manson) From insights gained from interview and analysis of the crim...

Sex -ANSWER - The biological differences between males and females including chromosomes, hormones and anatomy. Gender -ANSWER - The psychological and cultural differences between males and females including attitudes, behaviours and social roles. Sex-role stereotype -ANSWER - A set of beliefs and preconceived ideas about what is expected or appropriate for males and females in a given society. Gender identity disorder (GID) -ANSWER - Characterised by strong, persistent feelings of iden...

what is your sex? - ANSWER -whether you are biologically male or female what is your gender? - ANSWER -the way you act and identify yourself what is 'androgynous'? - ANSWER -having a balanced combination of masculine and feminine characteristics what are sex-roles? - ANSWER -the particular behaviours expected of men and women what are sex-role stereotypes? - ANSWER -ideas about sex-roles that are widely held but tend to be narrow, inflexible, and over generalised what was bem's...

What three things do you need to conduct to do a sign test? - ANSWER -1. You are looking to see whether the difference between two sets of data is significant or not. 2. The data gathered is nominal (frequency data - e.g. how many people said yes or no) 3. It was a repeated measures or matched pairs design. What is nominal data? - ANSWER -Data that can be placed in categories/groups (colours, Type A/B personality, types of attachment style). What is a repeated measures design? - ANSWER...

What is free will? - ANSWER -the view that we are free to make our own choices of our behaviour that is not determined by internal or external factors What approach favours free will? - ANSWER -humanism What is hard determinism? - ANSWER -the view that there is no free will as all our actions have causes and are effected by internal or external events where we have no control What is soft determinism? - ANSWER -the view that all events and actions have a cause but that we have conscious...

Wilhelm Wundt (A01) - ANSWER-Believed all aspects of human behavior could be studied scientifically. Approach allowed psychology to be accepted as a distinct science, and experimental psychology as the favoured method of studying human behavior. Studied only aspects of behavior with the ability to control under experimental conditions. Criticism (evaluation) of Wundt's methods (A03) - ANSWER-In Wundt's structural approach, the methods were unreliable, due to the reliance on non-observabl...

Name and define the 3 types of Confomity -ANSWER - COMPLIANCE - change behaviour to fit in, don't agree in private but go along in public - last as long as group is present - linked to Normative social influence IDENTIFICATION - adjust because membership is desirable, conforming to behaviour of role model - private and public acceptance - temporary INTERNALISATION - change in public and private views - most permanent form as it can continue without presence of group - linked to Informational...

How does humanistic psychology differ from most other approaches? -ANSWER - Focuses on conscious experience rather than on behaviour personal responsibility and free will than determinism Free will -ANSWER - The concept of free will is central to the humanistic approach. Theories in this approach stress people possess full conscious control over their destiny - and have free will. Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs -ANSWER - The hierarchy of needs is a triangular model divided into five levels ...

What are the two types of validity? -ANSWER - Internal and external What is validity? -ANSWER - How true or genuine an observed effect or behaviour is. What doe internal validity mean? -ANSWER - If the IV produces a change in the DV, if the test tests what it's supposed to, if it has or hasn't got mundane realism. What are the different types of external validity? -ANSWER - Ecological (linking to real life), Population (linking to gender), Temporal (linking to time of study) Finish...