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Individual Differences Approach

Individual Differences Approach. Focus on Section C question . Section C question. Focus on either an approach or a perspective Choice of which question to answer (17 or 18) Answer all 4 parts (a, b, c & d) Always worth 24 marks (2, 4, 6 and 12). Things to know.

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Individual Differences Approach

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  1. Individual Differences Approach Focus on Section C question

  2. Section C question • Focus on either an approach or a perspective • Choice of which question to answer (17 or 18) • Answer all 4 parts (a, b, c & d) • Always worth 24 marks (2, 4, 6 and 12)

  3. Things to know • At least 2 assumptions of each approach/perspective • How the approach/perspective would explain a behaviour (linked to core studies, i.e. mental disorders) • Similarities and differences between studies within the approach/perspective • Strengths and weaknesses of the approach/perspective.

  4. Strengths & Weaknesses Helps us to understand the reasons for differences in people e.g. why some behave abnormally. Example: The work of Thigpen & Cleckley who researched MPD Can you think of another example?

  5. Strength (2) (2) Individual differences, helps us to develop measures of peoples’ behaviour Example Psychometrics might be useful in being able to select people for jobs or entrance to university. What did Thigpen & Cleckley’s work contribute to this?

  6. Strength (3) 3) Individual differences help us to understand that behaviour is culturally bound. That is what is considered as abnormal in one culture may be considered perfectly normal in another. Example Eating disorders, such as Anorexia Nervosa, are prevalent in Western cultures but unheard of in Eastern or less developed cultures.

  7. Weaknesses • This type of research can create labels. Many disorders listed in manuals such as DSM simply do not exist outside the West. Depression and anxiety are unheard of in many non-western nations. Example • How did Rosenhan’s study demonstrate the stickiness of labels?

  8. Weaknesses (2) • The treatment and care given to people who are diagnosed as mentally ill raises issues for psychology. Patients can be sectioned and lose many ‘rights’ as well as become institutionalised. • Give an example to illustrate this using Rosenhan or Thigpen & Cleckley’s research.

  9. Weaknesses (3) • The individual approach to human behaviour may be flawed. The individual approach claims that humans vary was individuals. This does not take into account the influence of groups on our behaviour (determinist and reductionist)

  10. Question D - plan • Worth 12 marks • Give at least 2 strengths and 2 weaknesses • Use PEC or PEE

  11. Task Work in groups to think of 2 strengths and 2 weaknesses of the Individual differences approach (not the studies).

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