Evaluative Points Main comp

Question 1

What are the evaluative points for the biological approach

Answer 1

Strengths:
Scientific (raine)
Application (khan et al)

Weaknesses:
Deterministic
Reductionist
Nomothetic / Individual difference (tend befriend)

Question 2

Give the evaluative points of the Psychodynamic approach

Answer 2

Strength:
Application (matt and navarno)
Holistic (nature nurture)

Weakness:
Scientific
Deterministic

Question 3

What are the evaluative points of the behaviourist approach?

Answer 3

Strengths:
Scientific (watson and rayner)
Application (watson and rayner into SD)

Weaknesses:
Reductionist
Determinism (blank slate)

Question 4

What are the strengths and weaknesses of the cognitive approach?

Answer 4

Strengths:
Scientific (loftus and palmer)
application (Jarett, Loftus and Paigett)

Weaknesses:
Reductionist
Deterministic (Schemas)

Question 5

What are the evaluate points of the positive approach?

Answer 5

Strength: Free Will and Application
(US department of education in 2002 and Teasdale)

Weakness: Non-Scientific (Wager)
individual differences.
(Hickinbottom and Norem)