approaches evaluations

Question 1

wundt origins of psychology

Answer 1

+highly controlled experiments and large sample sizes for his time
+cognitive approach influenced by wundts idea of mental process

-introspection unscientific
- disregarded internal processes mind ‘black box’

Question 2

behavioural - pavlov and skinner

Answer 2

+established cause and effect
+used in treatment therapy

-animals used (generalisability + ethics)
-reductionist

Question 3

SLT - bandura

Answer 3

+supporting evidence high internal validity
+less reductionist (acknowledges consciousness)

• supporting evidence ecological validity and ethics
  -uses inference not observation of internal processes

Question 4

cognitive approach

Answer 4

+highly controlled experiments
+ led to emergence of cognitive neuroscience

-reductionist (computer models)
- use of infrences on the brains processes

Question 5

biological approach - mcguffin et al

Answer 5

+ highly scientific

• correlational research
  -biological determinism
  -ignores shared environment(deterministic)

Question 6

humanistic approach - maslow + rogers

Answer 6

+holistic
+ideas used in therapy (CCT)
-overly positive
-untestable

Question 7

psychodynamic - freud

Answer 7

• case study unscientific
• unfalsifiable
• deterministic (all behaviour stems from)