necessarily lead to success‚ HSE is more advantageous in interpersonal relationships. LSEs were chronically dissatisfied with their romantic relationships (Cavallo‚ Fitzsimons & Holmes‚ 2009). This can be explained by the tendency for LSEs to engage in potentially destructive behaviors like hostility‚ avoidance or aggression. (Bellavia & Murray‚ 2003; Crocker & Park‚ 2004) LSE’s lower satisfaction in their romantic relationships compared to HSEs can be explained by several reasons. Firstly
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Outline and Evaluate research into privation AO1 Privation is when a child has the right to form an attachment to a primary care giver taken away from them; the option to make these crucial attachments isn’t there. If Bowlby’s theory is correct‚ then because of this inability to form attachments‚ infants should grow up struggling to form relationships and attachments to anyone else. AO1 P: Evidence looking at the effects of privation comes from the case of Genie. E: She was 13 years old
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Hwk – Outline and evaluate explanations of conformity (8 marks) AO1: Conformity is a form of social influence and is the tendency to copy other people’s behaviour and attitudes from within a group. Normative social influence occurs when a person desires to be liked and accepted by a group. They will publicly conform and change their behaviour but they will still privately reject their views. This change in behaviour is often temporary as this type of social influence leads to compliance.
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Outline and Evaluate The Cognitive Interview (12 marks) The cognitive interview was created by Fisher and Gieselman in 1992‚ the cognitive interview is a technique which aims to bring out more accurate information from eye witnesses. It consists of four stages; the interviewee is asked to mentally recreate the environment from the original incident including weather conditions and their feelings. The interviewee is asked to report every single detail of the incident even if it may seem irrelevant
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Outline and evaluate research into obedience (Milgram) Milgram carried out a series of studies to try to shed some light on the aspect of human behaviour. He studied a thousand participants who were representative of the general population. He discovered that under certain situational influences most of us would conform to what is needed to be done. His study of obedience was done in a lab in Yale University and the experimenter wore a long grey coat which reinforced his authority and status. Then
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Outline & evaluate the cognitive interview. (12 marks) The cognitive interview was devised by psychologists in order to eliminate the effects of misleading questions and misleading information. The process consists of first reporting everything the witness can remember‚ even information they believe to be unimportant. Then the witness is asked to mentally instate their experience‚ where they mentally use their sense to recall information. After this the witness is asked to change the order in
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Outline and evaluate definitions of abnormality. Abnormality has three definitions. The first definition is deviation from social norms. Social norms are the approved and expected ways of behaving in a particular society. In terms of social norms‚ abnormal behaviour can be seen as behaviour that deviates from or violates social norms. The key weakness of the deviation of social norms is cultural relativity. Social norms by their very definition are specific to a particular
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include the bonds between adults and their romantic partners; the extension includes the concept of the secure‚ the anxious-preoccupied‚ the dismissive-avoidant‚ and the fearful-avoidant attachment styles. Current research‚ in the form of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies‚ predicts adults exhibit attachment styles during the forming‚ maintenance‚ and separation process. The research utilized the experiences in close relationships inventory and the relationship maintenance questionnaire to find their
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The number 65 is displayed in front of you. Then you are asked a question: Is the percentage of African countries in the United Nations greater or less than 65? When Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman (1974) asked this question to their subjects‚ they found that the number shown before the question heavily influenced the answers. Those who were shown 65 gave a median estimate of 45 percent and those who were shown the 45 gave a median estimate of 25 percent. They defined this phenomenon as anchoring
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Outline & Evaluate one or more Explanations of Why People Obey. There are many reasons as to why people obey which have been justified gradually over several decades. Milgram (1974) argued the fact that in an obedience situation‚ people tend to pass all sense of responsibility onto the authoritative figure. Milgram said that people are in an autonomous state when taking their responsibility but move into an agentic state when passing this responsibility to an authoritative figure; this shift in
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