Individual Differences (S+W)

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Individual Differences (S+W)
  1. Provides useful in improving the experiences of people with mental health problems.
    1. E.g. Rosenhan's study led to a revision of the way that people with mental health problems are both diagnosed and treated. Similarly the study by Griffiths suggests that a type of cognitive behavioural therapy may be successful with addicted gamblers.
    2. The development and use of psychometric tests to measure the differences between individuals in qualities such as personality and intelligence.
      1. These psychometric tests provide reliable and quantitative data which can easily be analysed and therefore similarities and differences between individuals can be discovered.
        1. Psychometric tests were used in the study of multiple personality by Thigpen and Cleckley. However it may of had observer bias.
      2. Reliance on dispositional explanations at the expense of situational explanations. That is the individual differences approach explains individual differences as resulting from a person's own characteristics or disposition and has a tendency to ignore external factors such as the situation a person is in.
        1. E.g. many of Eve's difficulties could also be explained by the expectations of being a wife in the US in the 1950s.
        2. Ethical issues raised with labelling people as being different. The tendency to label people as being different, abnormal and so on can have a negative effect on individuals.
          1. Rosenhan was particularly critical about both the reliability and negative effects of labelling. Furthermore such labels particularly negative ones can lead to a self fulfilling prophecy in which expectations about a person (or a group of people) can come true simply because of those expectations.
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