social explanation

Question 1

anti social

Answer 1

acting in a way that is likely to cause harassment, alarm or distress to people not of same household

Question 2

labelling

Answer 2

broad terms are used to describe a group of people. Happens when a group see another as inferior which creates majority and minority groups

• have negative connotations and derive from stereotypes

Question 3

self-fulfilling prophecy

Answer 3

false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour, which makes originally false conception come true.
we then internalise labels associated with us

Question 4

social learning theory

Answer 4

acquiring behaviour by observing and imitating others

Question 5

evaluation

Answer 5

• SE from Jahoda 1954
• SE from Madon et al 2004
• ethical issues so can’t be tested/ proven
• cannot accept a causal link as other variables may influence behaviour
• CE from meta analysis on SLT and aggression = 0.19 which is a weak correlation coefficient so results not significant and there are other influences

Question 6

individual differences

Answer 6

• SFP, some do not live up to expectations as they usually have high self-esteem, greater autonomy and less regard for opinion
• social explanations can explain development

Question 7

Jahoda

Answer 7

1954
- Ashanti people from Ghana name boys depending on the day they were born
mondays = quiet boys
wednesday = aggressive and short tempered
- looking at 5 year records
22% violent offences committed by wednesday boys
6.9% monday
- suggests that cultural expectations and labels led to different treatment and they conformed to labels

Question 8

madon et al

Answer 8

2004

• whether parents expectations about childs alcohol use had any self-fulfilling effect on childrens future drinking behaviour
• found a positive correlation between parents who overestimated childs alcohol use and actual alcohol use a year later. If both parents expected child was more likely