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    Outline and evaluate psychological explanations for schizophrenia (24) One psychological explanation of SZ was put forward by Bateson et al (1956) who looked at childhood as a base for developing SZ‚ for example the interactions children have with their mothers. His explanation‚ the Double Bind theory‚ states that schizophrenia can occur due to conflicting messages given from parents to their children‚ for example when a parent expresses care but does so in a critical way. This means that the child

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    Outline and evaluate psychological explanations of schizophrenia (24 marks) Brown and Birley studied stressful life events in the role of relapse in schizophrenics. They found that 50% of people experience a stressful life event e.g. death‚ relationship break-up‚ job loss etc. in the 3 weeks prior to a schizophrenic episode. A control sample reported a low and unchanging level of stressful life events over the same period. However not all evidence supports the role of life events. For example‚

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    perspectives on human behaviour. Essentialist or social constructionist perspective has been considered by psychologists to examine the origin of sex differences (Anselmi & Law‚ 1998). Essentialism articulates that sex differences commence from inducements that are intrinsic in human beings‚ and present itself as an alternative meta-theory to conventional sociology. The discrepancy in sex differences across social contexts is considered by social constructionist view-point‚ understood by the interpretation

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    Aggression” by Scott Boeringer‚ who assesses campus violence and the contribution of fraternity membership‚ “Gender Status and Violence” by Kristen Anderson‚ and “Unnecessary Roughness? School Sports‚ Peer Networks‚ and Male Adolescent Violence” written by Derek Kreager‚ and government statistics I related the commonality of college age female victims and their availability and vulnerability to aggressive men in social environments. I also followed the Vanderbilt gang rape case involving members

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    Psychological Perspectives for Aggression Psychology is composed of a lot of different branches such as biological psychology‚ cognitive psychology‚ evolutionary psychology‚ social-cultural psychology‚ etc and they all have different justifications pertaining to behavior. Biologically speaking‚ aggression can be inherited by genes of past generations. If aggression was a quality of the ancestors or relatives of a person then it is likely that the person will also be aggressive. Additionally‚ if

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    there just one thing that controls when and how aggressive someone becomes? How can we come to explain such acts of aggression and violence? Are they a result of societal influences‚ or are some individuals biologically predisposed to crime? Do brain disorders‚ hormonal and chemical imbalances‚ environmental factors‚ such as heat‚ noise‚ air pollution and overcrowding increase our aggression level? Or is it something we choose to obtain? These are all questions that researchers have been addressing

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    Outline and evaluate learning theory as an explanation of attachment. Classical conditioning - Before attachment is learned‚ the infant gains pleasure through being fed. Food is the unconditioned stimulus and pleasure is the unconditioned response. When the infant is being fed‚ the infant associates the person providing the food with the food. The primary caregiver is the neutral stimulus‚ which becomes associated with food (the unconditioned stimulus). When the attachment has been learned

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    Outline and evaluate research into institutional aggression deindividuation include being in a large crowd‚ anonymity due to wearing a uniform and altered consciousness due to drugs or alcohol. Deindividuation leads to reduced inner restraints and therefore an increase in behaviours that are usually inhibited and also reduces the fear of negative evaluation from others. This leads to an increase in aggressive behaviours. Recent changes to this theory focus on the importance of private self-awareness

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    Social Psychology Assignment one Word count 2474 Critically evaluate two theories of Aggression. Which do you think most successfully explains behaviour? Use relevant research to support your answer. The two theories I have chosen are the Frustration theory created in 1939 “Frustration-Aggression hypothesis is a theory of aggression proposed by Dollard‚ Doob‚ Miller‚ Mowrer and Sears” (Weinberg et al 2007‚p537) And Social Learning theorysocial learning

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    For decades sports psychologists have disputed the question of whether aggression in any form is instinctive/ biological or is modelled by our interaction in society i.e. we learn it. Aggression is defined by Coakley (2014) as “verbal or physical actions grounded in intent to dominate‚ control‚ or do harm to another person” and emphasizes the two main components: that the behavior is aimed at another human with intention to inflict harm and that the behavior is reasonably thought to be as such that

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