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3.1 Issues and Debates - Coggle Diagram

- - - - FOR = there are aspects of behaviour that can only be understood in a group perspective
      - AGAINST = doesn't lend themselves to scientific testing: ideas can become vague and speculative as things become more complex
        
        Humanistic psychology often criticised for lack of empirical evidence.
        
        Higher explanation combine many different perspectives = accepting that there are many factors makes it difficult to establish the most influential and therefore which direction to go in or ex. which factor to use as a basis for therapy
        
        perhaps lower level explanations are more appropriate when trying to find solutions to real world problems.
  - - - A03
        
        FOR = Forms the basis of scientific research. In order to operationalise variables need to break target behaviours down
        makes it poss to conduct experiments and record obsv in meaningful reliable way
        
        Against = often accused of oversimplifying complex phenomena by simply reducing behaviour to the working of genes hormones and neurotransmitters. often a higher level of explanation is needed which takes into account more factors that may explain the reason behind an action. Therefore reductionist approach often loses validity and can only ever tell us part of an explanation.
- - - - FOR =
      - AGAINST =
- - - - SSRIs used to treat OCD
    - - STRENGTH = allows you to treat a wide range of people
      - WEAKNESS = using stats results in loosing the 'whole individual' and the subjective experience is ignored.
  - - - Little hands CASE STUDY
    - - WEAKNESS - meaningful generalisations cannot be made without further examples. Furthermore methods associated tend to be less scientific and rely on subjective interpretations of the researcher therefore more open to bias
      - STRENGTH - provides detailed qualitative data and in combination with nomothetic can provide a more completed study