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Psychology PYA5 Approaches help!

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/attachment.php?attachmentid=69488&d=1241978168

This is the paper for last year.

Read the approaches section about pessimism and absent-mindness

What are your ideas about the different sections for this?

I think its a really hard paper! How would you describe each in terms of a behavioural/psychodynamic/biological approach ? :s-smilie:

A pessimistic gene? :biggrin:

Thanks

Reply 1

kirsty007

i agree the approaches ? is really hard! the issues and schiz ? are easy though.i wanted gender bias and ethica issues to come up on june exam! but now they wont as they were on the jan exam! :frown:

or will they?

Reply 2

kirsty007

for pessimism i would do this:

psychodynamic approach--> an individual is fixated at the oral stage during childhood because of his mother not nurseing him on time all of the time. this resulted in the child having a pessimist attitude in their adult personality. something like that.

cognitive explantion --> the individual has a negative schema. a schema is.....

behavioural explanation --> the individual has leant to become pessimisitic through operant condition. the individual may have constantly had negative reinforcements during situations and this lead to them developing a negative view of life as they belive that nothing they will do will result in positive reinforcements. something like that.

that ? is really hard! i would have done pessimism though rather than absent mindedness.