Outline and evaluate two or more definitions of abnormality? (12 Marks) Deviation from social norms is a definition of abnormality. The word ‘deviation’ in this definition is referring to deviant behaviour (behaviour which is considered anti-social or undesirable by the majority of society members). In society there are social norms (standards of acceptable behaviour that are set by the social group). These standards are often in place for good reason. An example of a social norm is politeness as
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Explain one of the principles of cognitive psychology and how it can be demonstrated… Define cognition - Refers to a process that is based on one’s mental representations of the world‚ such as images‚ words and concepts. People likewise have different experiences and therefore each individual will have different mental representations of the world. For example: what boys can do‚ girls cannot do this cognition will influence the way they act . State principle 1- Cognitive psychologists believe that
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Outline and Evaluate research into Cultural Variation in attachment If attachment is a biological innate process‚ as Bowlby’s theory suggests‚ then secure attachment should be the best form for all humans regardless of variations in culture. However‚ there is much research against this statement‚ making us question whether attachment is or is not a biological innate process at all. Studies such as Ainsworth’s Uganda research support Bowlby’s theory. She observed how infants in Uganda‚ like in
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Outline and evaluate research into the effect of day care on children’s social behaviour (aggression and peer relations). [12marks] Many psychologists have researched into the effect of day care on both aggression and peer relations in children/toddlers. One of those psychologists was Shea (1981) who studied 3-4 year olds who spent a certain amount of days a week in day care for 10 weeks. He discovered that day care does not increase aggression in children as they became more sociable and aggression
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Outline and evaluate the effect of anxiety on eyewitness testimony AO1 AO2 Yerkes Dodson law – states that there is an optimum level of anxiety for accurate eyewitness testimony. I.e. People who are not at all stressed‚ and people who are very stressed will be less accurate eyewitnesses that those who are under a moderate amount of stress. Loftus carried out a study of the ‘Weapon effect’. She set up two conditions of the experiment. In both conditions‚ participants heard a discussion in the
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Outline and evaluate research into cultural variations in attachment Due to the fact that the ways that people bring up their children can be very different all over the world as we share different attitudes‚ values and beliefs etc. People emphasize on developing distinct skills and qualities‚ so attachments formed can be different. For instance‚ countries like America and Germany would value personal independence and achievement more‚ whereas interdependence between people is valued more in China
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just like children who tend to be sensitive or withdrawn‚ vary considerably. Some may be aggressive because they are frustrated and highly sensitive. Other children may be aggressive because they crave lots of sensory input. Whatever the cause‚ aggression in a child can tax us to our limits. But if we can understand the underlying physical and emotional reasons‚ we can use it as an opportunity to help the child grow and develop
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that most people are familiar with. The intention is to treat a category of people differently to either harm or benefit others. This type of discrimination includes micro aggressions‚ that aren’t necessarily intentional‚ and we don’t realize we do them. They end up building up inside the people we harbor them toward. Institutional discrimination is a type that involves discrimination on a much larger scale. It includes policies‚ institutions‚ and the behaviors of the people who implement them. The
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Institutional discrimination is policies and practices that are favorable to a dominant group while unfavorable to another group that are systematically placed and acceptable in the form of norms in the existing structure of society. The differences between defacto and dejure discrimination is dejure discrimination is any discrimination or unequal treatment of two groups that is based on statutory law and sanctioned by the government in place at the time. A great example of de jure discrimination
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Analytical essay of the violence and aggression in chapter 17 of Wuthering Heights. Wuthering Heights was written by Emile Bronte‚ one of the Bronte sisters. The author finished this novel in 1847. After that‚ Emily died soon in 1848 at the age of thirty. In the nineteenth century Wuthering Heights becomes as classical novel. The readers who were read this novel were shocked by the Violence. In this paper‚ I will discuss the theme of the violence in chapter seventeen of this classic novel. In contrast
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