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    Describe and evaluate social influences on gender roles (25 marks) Bandura and Walters (1963) proposed the social learning theory initially to explain aggression in children‚ yet they argued it can be readily applied to any behaviour. SLT suggests we acquire new behaviours via observing others‚ then modelling the observed behaviour. We are more likely to model behaviours if the behaviour is rewarded‚ via indirect‚ vicarious reinforcement. We can also learn new behaviours via being reinforced

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    Roth (1918) defines memory as the retention and retrieval of learning or prior experiences. There are three main models that explore memory. The first of these is Atkinson and Shiffrin’s (1968) Multi- Store or Modal model of memory. Atkinson and Shiffrin categorise memory into three sub-systems; the sensory memory‚ the short-term memory (STM) and the long-term memory (LTM). The sensory memory stores information for a very short period of time‚ only registering passing sensory information‚ such

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    Obedience is when an individual responds to an order from an authority figure. A key study that has looked into research is one carried out by Milgrams in 1963. The aim of the experiment was investigate whether ordinary people will obey a legitimate authority figure even when required to injure an innocent person. Milgrams recruited 40 male participants by advertising for volunteers to take part in his study. Each participant would be paid $4.50. The experiment consisted of one ‘real’ participant

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    Outline some of the theories which seek to explain an area of development in the child. Drawing upon observations that you have made in schools‚ discuss the significance and evaluate these theories for the teacher in planning effective learning situations. Justify your answer with specific examples from your own experience and your reading. Theories surrounding language development within infants and young children and how these theories differ in their ideas. Language is a systematic means

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    Outline and evaluate explanations of eating disorders based on the biological model of psychological abnormality [18] Explanations tend to fall into four categories: • Evolutionary • Genetic • Neuroanatomy • Biochemical Evolutionary explanations of behaviour are based on Darwin’s theories of natural and sexual selection. These theories have been applied to eating disorders. It is suggested that the ability to control ones appetite and ignore hunger when food supplies

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    Outline and evaluate genetic factors in aggression The use of twin studies helps explain how there could be genetic factors in aggressive behavior. There are two types of Twin‚ monozygotic (identical) and Dizygotic (non-identical). If both types are studied in terms of aggression and the M-Z twins are more similar in aggressive behaviour it would suggest there is a genetic influence on aggression. Coccaro et al found that when comparing MZ and DZ twins‚ over 50 % of variance in aggressive behaviours

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    Outline and evaluate research into maternal deprivation. (18 marks) Bowlby’s maternal deprivation hypothesis suggests that bond disruption between the infant and caregiver in the early years can have detrimental and irreversible effects on the intellectual‚ social‚ and emotional development of the child. He carried out the study on 44 juvenile thieves (that were transferred to his institution)‚ whom he compared to a group of 44 controls. It was a retrospective study using interviews and questionnaires

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    Outline and evaluate the behavioural approach to psychopathology. (12 marks) Behaviourists believe that all of a person’s complex behaviours are the result of learning through interaction with the environment. Behaviourists deal with the following forms of learning: classical conditioning and operant conditioning. In classical conditioning people learn to associate two stimuli when they occur together‚ such that the response originally elicited by one stimulus is transferred to another. The person

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    Outline and Evaluate Biological Treatments for Schizophrenia. The meaning of Schizophrenia is the loss of contact with reality also known as split-mind. It shouldn’t be thought of as one disorder as there are several sub-types such as; paranoia‚ catatonic‚ disorganised‚ and undifferentiated; they all have different symptoms. It is a disorder which is estimated at 1% of the population and is more common in males‚ lower social classes and African-Caribbean’s living in the U.K. Schizophrenia is characterised

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    Outline and evaluate biological explanations of obesity Various explanations can be provided for the reasons of obesity‚ from biological explanations‚ to neurological and evolutionary theories. Even socio-economic reasons could give insight into why some people have a higher likeliness of obesity Evolutionarily‚ the thrifty gene hypothesis provides insight as to why many suffer from obesity‚ as it suggests that our current genes are no longer suited to our new environment. Modern day society is

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