How do individual diffs studies (4) link to area?

Question 1

Freud- Little Hans- Understanding disorders

Answer 1

Individual diffs because focus on trying yo explain way which people may differ- having phobias.
Does this through case study method of single boy - ‘Little Hans’.

Question 2

Baron-cohen- Autism in adults- Understanding disorders

Answer 2

Focusing on understanding ways in which people differ (individual diffs) through being diagnosed as being autistic.
Contrast to Freud- different research method used (Quasi) number and ages of ps and different disorder also.
Interested in unique ways characteristics from triad of impairments present themselves in different individuals and if there was common cause of this to all individuals with autism.
Baron-cohen believed a central commonality of disorder was lacking theory of mind.

Question 3

Gould- Nation of Morons- bias in IQ testing- Measuring differences

Answer 3

Individual diffs because of its focus on attempt to develop test to measure way in which people differ- levels of intelligence.
Particularly shows how difficult it is to avoid cultural bias in supposedly objective measures.

Question 4

Hancock- Language of psychopaths- Measuring differences

Answer 4

Focus on measuring differences- text analysis tools used to examine crime narratives of 14 psychopathic and 38 non-psychopathic homicide offenders and findings demonstrate how the 2 groups differ.