AQA A LEVEL PSYCHOLOGY PAPER 2
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Give one reason why schema's are useful? - ANSWER✅✅When we're in unknown
situations schemas help us know how to behave. So when we do not know what to
do our schema fills in the gaps for us and allow us to process situations better.
Give one reason why schema's are not useful? - ANSWER✅✅schemas may exclude
information which doesn't conform to our prior expectations. As a result, we may
form stereotypes which are difficult to shift, even if new,disputing information is
presented. This means we may not be processing the world around us accurately
and may misjudge or represent a person or situation.
Discuss the defense mechanism shown by Jed? - ANSWER✅✅Displacement is when
we redirect our hostile feelings onto something else because it is not appropriate to
express their feeling towards the person or object in question. Jed can't take his
frustration out on his teacher, who issued the detention and he displaced his feelings
by kicking the locker.
Outline the key features of the behaviourist approach. Compare to the biological
approach,
, (A01 Behaviourist) - ANSWER✅✅The behaviourist approach suggests that the basic
processes that govern learning in all species are the same. We learn through two
concepts: operant conditioning and classical conditioning.
Outline the key features of the behaviourist approach. Compare to the biological
approach, (classical conditioning) - ANSWER✅✅The idea of classical conditioning
was developed by Pavlov who found that we learn through association. He found
that it was possible to condition dogs to associate the sound of a bell with food. This
resulted in the dogs producing a salivation response at the sound of a bell even
when no food was present. Pavlov demonstrated that repeated exposure to an
event leads to a learned and uncontrollable behaviour.
Outline the key features of the behaviourist approach. Compare to the biological
approach, (operant conditioning) - ANSWER✅✅Skinner suggested behaviour
resulted from learning through the consequences of our actions. He conducted
research into operant conditioning theory using rats, and found that three types of
consequences will affect behaviour: positive reinforcement involves rewarding a
behaviour, which increases it being repeated; negative reinforcement involves
removing an unpleasant outcome to increase it being repeated; punishment involves
adding an unpleasant outcome,reducing the behaviour.
Outline the key features of the behaviourist approach. Compare to the biological
approach, (similarity to biological) - ANSWER✅✅Both the behaviourist approach
and biological approach share a similarity in being determinist. Both ignore the
influence that the person can have and whether they have free will and can make
their own choices in these decisions.
Outline the key features of the behaviourist approach. Compare to the biological
approach, (difference) - ANSWER✅✅However, they differ in that the behaviourist
approach is environmentally determinist while the biological approach is biologically
determinist. Stating that behaviour is the product of internal biological factors (e.g.
genes, hormones, neurotransmitters, etc.) while behaviourists argue that behaviour
is determined by the environment and is a product of stimulus-response associations
Outline the key features of the behaviourist approach. Compare to the biological
approach (similarity) - ANSWER✅✅Both approaches take a nomothetic approach
when studying human behaviour. Both investigate behaviour to try to create
universal laws that apply to all human beings. Biologists argue that this is possible
because human beings share similar physiologies, and behaviourists argue that this is
possible because all behaviour is the result of learning and stimulus-response
associations. Therefore, the aim of generating universal laws that apply to all
humans is another similarity between the behaviourist and biological approaches.
Outline the key features of the behaviourist approach. Compare to the biological
approach (nature + nurture) - ANSWER✅✅the behaviourist approach and biological
approach are different in their position on the nature-nurture debate. Behaviourist
views rest firmly on the nurture side of the debate, and that human beings are blank
EXAM,LATEST PREMIUM UPDATE 2024-
2025|BRAND NEW EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS,ALL GRADED
A+|GUARANTEED SUCCESS|LATEST UPDATE
Give one reason why schema's are useful? - ANSWER✅✅When we're in unknown
situations schemas help us know how to behave. So when we do not know what to
do our schema fills in the gaps for us and allow us to process situations better.
Give one reason why schema's are not useful? - ANSWER✅✅schemas may exclude
information which doesn't conform to our prior expectations. As a result, we may
form stereotypes which are difficult to shift, even if new,disputing information is
presented. This means we may not be processing the world around us accurately
and may misjudge or represent a person or situation.
Discuss the defense mechanism shown by Jed? - ANSWER✅✅Displacement is when
we redirect our hostile feelings onto something else because it is not appropriate to
express their feeling towards the person or object in question. Jed can't take his
frustration out on his teacher, who issued the detention and he displaced his feelings
by kicking the locker.
Outline the key features of the behaviourist approach. Compare to the biological
approach,
, (A01 Behaviourist) - ANSWER✅✅The behaviourist approach suggests that the basic
processes that govern learning in all species are the same. We learn through two
concepts: operant conditioning and classical conditioning.
Outline the key features of the behaviourist approach. Compare to the biological
approach, (classical conditioning) - ANSWER✅✅The idea of classical conditioning
was developed by Pavlov who found that we learn through association. He found
that it was possible to condition dogs to associate the sound of a bell with food. This
resulted in the dogs producing a salivation response at the sound of a bell even
when no food was present. Pavlov demonstrated that repeated exposure to an
event leads to a learned and uncontrollable behaviour.
Outline the key features of the behaviourist approach. Compare to the biological
approach, (operant conditioning) - ANSWER✅✅Skinner suggested behaviour
resulted from learning through the consequences of our actions. He conducted
research into operant conditioning theory using rats, and found that three types of
consequences will affect behaviour: positive reinforcement involves rewarding a
behaviour, which increases it being repeated; negative reinforcement involves
removing an unpleasant outcome to increase it being repeated; punishment involves
adding an unpleasant outcome,reducing the behaviour.
Outline the key features of the behaviourist approach. Compare to the biological
approach, (similarity to biological) - ANSWER✅✅Both the behaviourist approach
and biological approach share a similarity in being determinist. Both ignore the
influence that the person can have and whether they have free will and can make
their own choices in these decisions.
Outline the key features of the behaviourist approach. Compare to the biological
approach, (difference) - ANSWER✅✅However, they differ in that the behaviourist
approach is environmentally determinist while the biological approach is biologically
determinist. Stating that behaviour is the product of internal biological factors (e.g.
genes, hormones, neurotransmitters, etc.) while behaviourists argue that behaviour
is determined by the environment and is a product of stimulus-response associations
Outline the key features of the behaviourist approach. Compare to the biological
approach (similarity) - ANSWER✅✅Both approaches take a nomothetic approach
when studying human behaviour. Both investigate behaviour to try to create
universal laws that apply to all human beings. Biologists argue that this is possible
because human beings share similar physiologies, and behaviourists argue that this is
possible because all behaviour is the result of learning and stimulus-response
associations. Therefore, the aim of generating universal laws that apply to all
humans is another similarity between the behaviourist and biological approaches.
Outline the key features of the behaviourist approach. Compare to the biological
approach (nature + nurture) - ANSWER✅✅the behaviourist approach and biological
approach are different in their position on the nature-nurture debate. Behaviourist
views rest firmly on the nurture side of the debate, and that human beings are blank
