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KAT Thursday 18th March - Coggle Diagram

- - - - On the other hand the nurture perspective is more positive as it suggests if a behaviour is learned from the environment it can be unlearned.
- - - - Biological reductionism
        
        Explains behaviour in terms of genetics, brain structure, and brain chemistry.
      - Environmental reductionism
        
        Explains behaviour in terms of stimulus-response links. This suggests that behaviour is learned through classical and operant conditioning.
    - - highest level takes into account cultural and social explanations.
      - middle level takes into account psychological explanations.
      - lower level takes into account biological explanations of how hormones and genes affect behaviour. MOST REDUCTIONIST.
  - - - Has lead to drug treatments.
    - - This explanation is difficult to test because it relies on clinical observation and self-report which can be biased, reducing the internal validity of such explanations.
- - - - A nomothetic approach favours research methods that produce quantitative data such as experiments. These involve the study of large numbers of people in order to establish patterns of behaviour and ways in which people are similar. This provides a benchmark from which people can be compared, classified and measured-ultimately informing us who is abnormal.
    - - Favours research methods that produce qualitative data such as case studies and self-report measures like unstructured interviews.
  - - - A strength of idiographic research is that it reveals important insights about normal functioning. This could not be tested nomothetically as it would be unethical to destroy parts of someone's brain to see how memory was affected.