Steve, Psychology

teach me all u need to know for the Psychology exam on Friday..
NO LONG TING!!

sure thing... il start in 40 mins

okay, start

Ok, im going to do this in several posts, to prove to marwa that im working on it


I'm going to start at the only reasonable place, Chapter 4. Agression.

We need to know 2 explanations of aggression the "social psychological" explanation and the "biological" explanation.

In the social psychological explanation i see an old friend in social learning theory, which is where the infamous bobo doll experiment started...

Social learning theory says we learn aggression through 3 steps. First is observation, we see someone being agressive and learn the behavior, and we see how people react to that in either a positive or negative way and is vicarious reinforcement... the actions are reinforced within you even though your witnessing it in someone else.

after observation there is mental representation The individual pictures the events within his/her mind, they also picture the possible rewards or punishments.

finally there is production of behavior, the agression is directly reinforced now, the likelyhood of agression is increased if there is a high self-efficacy for production... thats if the action paid off.

to tie up social learning theory theres a bit of commentary, first heres 2 notes on the bobo doll.

children watched a clip of an adult attacking a bobo doll, then there were a number of clips shown to different groups of the adult being pushished, rewarded and another showing no outcome.

the children imitated the adult (or model) only if he was positively rewarded in the video.

ok, lil-comentary. learning takes place regardless of the outcome, but its only reproduced if it was seen as positive.

social learning theory applies to adults too, a research in america confirmed this - when boxing was shown to be linked to the homicide rates.

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Is this what you had in mind marwa?

okay, here's an exam Q.. see if u can do it..

Briefly evaluate Bandura et al's (1961) study in terms of one ethical issue. [6 marks]

lol psychology ... noob subject

now psychiatry is where its at

psychiatry is pretty sick, buh u gotta get into medicine to do it... so blah

Marwa you slackin big brained noob

i know rite..

not that i wanted to get into med anywayz

aint u gonna do some math thing?

yup a maths degree inshaAllah

Pink Panther wrote:okay, here's an exam Q.. see if u can do it..

Briefly evaluate Bandura et al's (1961) study in terms of one ethical issue. [6 marks]

only 1? ok, il give it a shot.

Bandura's experiment, the bobo doll study, took children and taught them violent acts. A third of the children repeated aggressive phrases used by the models. this could be seem as harm done to their personality, without the study these children could have lead less violent lives. On the other hand the children will be exposed to this kind of aggression eventually, if they haven't already been. bandura's experiment interferes with the development of these children.


blerg. rubbish answer.

errm... i don't have the mark scheme

i dont think that would really be a 6 mark question... probably 6 marks for 3 ethical issues explained

The CGP book says its 6 marks.. buh its a dumb book anywayz...
wat else do u need to know for tomorrow's exam?

i think we have covered almost 5% of it

theres the topics of sleep and biological cycles, and the topiic of relationships... and alot more on agression.

I'm not too worried though, im half planning on resiting it.

ugh.. resits... they're a freakin waste of time, try to get it right first time...

yeah, well i just havent been myself lately, I cant wait to be done with this exam.

meh

do u need to know stuff about abnormality?

i think thats next semester.

term*

we have semesters at the college, i wish i still had terms

Semester is a Uni word... it makes me cringe every time i hear it