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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term memory Describe the multi-store model of memory Outline the concepts capacity‚ duration and encoding Describe and evaluate the evidence upon which the model is based Describe how these concepts are measured Explain the strengths and weaknesses of the multi-store model Describe the working memory model Describe and evaluate the evidence on which the working memory model is based Explain the strengths and weaknesses of the model Describe various strategies for improving memory Explain
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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 & 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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What is the memory? Memory is our ability to encode‚ consolidate‚ store and recall the information and our past experience. Memory is the sum of what we remember‚ gives us the capability to learn and adapt using our previous experience. Encoding – is the first step to create a new memory. It allows the information to be converted and stored within the brain‚ and later recalled from short-term or long-term memory. There are four main types of encoding: 1) Acoustic – the process of encoding words
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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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what extent does the multi-store model offer a reasonable account of human memory?” (12 Marks) The most influential multi-store model (or MSM) was proposed by Atkinson and Shiffrin in 1968. They found out that memory is divided into a series of stages. At each stage‚ the information is passed from one to another and is constraints in terms of capacity‚ duration and encoding. The first part of the MSM is the sensory memory. According to Baddeley‚ the sensory memory holds information for a fraction
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Outline and evaluate functionalist views of the role of the family in society. (33 Marks) Functionalists stress the positive aspect of family. In particular‚ they force on the positive role of one particular family type: the nuclear family. Murdoch (1949) claimed the family was a universal institution. He studied 250 societies and found the family‚ in some form‚ was present in all of them. This suggests that families are necessary in some way‚ whether it be for societies to survive‚ for individual
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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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