Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Individual Vs Situational debate
- Definitions
- Individual (dispositional)- Everything you do is due to your characteristics as an individual.
- Eye colour
- Intelligence
- Gender
- Age
- Situational- Your behaviour is a product of the environment
and social situations that you are in.
- Home life
- Upbringing
- Environmental conditions
- Examples of studies which focus on the
individual//situational debate.
- Reicher&Haslam (situaitonal and individual).
- Milgram (situational)
- Baron cohen (Individual)
- sperry
- Strengths and weakenesses of the individual/situational debate
- Strengths
- If we can discover which behaviours are
determined by the situation this may be useful for
society.
- If we discover which behaviours are down to the
individual we may be able t find ways of treating them.
- Discovering that behaviour may involve a complex interaction
between individual and situational factors opens up new directions
for further research
- weaknesses
- It can be difficult to separate the
effects of a situation from the
disposition of the person so how can
we highlight cause and effect.
- Rather than individual or
situational factors being exclusive
alternatives, there may be a
complex interaction between the
two. Relying on just one or the
other will be reductionist.