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Unit 2: Psychology: Using Psychological Concepts
Quick questions on Contemporary debates - WJEC A-Level Psychology
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What is the ethics of neuroscience?Show answer
Brain scanning and brain-based interventions can diagnose and treat disorders and may inform fairer treatment of offenders, but risk misuse for surveillance, reduce behaviour to biology, and raise consent and privacy concerns. This debate draws on the biological approach.
What is the importance of mothering?Show answer
Evidence such as Bowlby (1944) suggests early care shapes later development, supporting investment in mothering, but the focus on the mother is criticised as outdated and as ignoring fathers, multiple carers and culture. This draws on the psychodynamic approach and attachment research.
What is the reliability of eyewitness testimony?Show answer
The cognitive approach, especially Loftus and Palmer (1974), shows leading questions and schemas distort memory, so testimony can be unreliable; yet careful questioning, the cognitive interview and corroboration can make it useful, so it should be treated with caution rather than dismissed.
What is the value of positive psychology?Show answer
The positive approach offers practical, preventive ways to raise wellbeing and a hopeful view of human nature, but its concepts are hard to measure, much evidence is correlational, and it may be culturally biased, so its claims should be applied carefully.
What is q1?Show answer
What three parts should a contemporary debate answer contain? [1 mark]
What is q2?Show answer
Outline one argument for and one against the use of conditioning on children. [3 marks]
What is q3?Show answer
Explain how the cognitive approach contributes to the debate about the reliability of eyewitness testimony. [4 marks]
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