| Psychology |
Why is IQ testing important? Examine the empirical literature and discuss to what extent intelligent tests inform future employers about a person’s capabilities?
Examine the empirical and theoretical literature and discuss the link between childhood attachment style and adult attachment styles. To what extent does one’s childhood attachment style impacts one’s future relationships?
“The ambiguity of the situation and apparent skepticism about the experimental setup among many participants all raise questions about how ‘obedience’ — and variations in it across conditions — should be understood within the Milgram paradigm”. Discuss and using theoretical and empirical studies, examine the concept of obedience in the Milgram paradigm.
Think about a real-life situation within the local context and using other psychological studies, show how theories of conformity can account for the phenomenon.
“Memory is always constructive. People create the past on the information that remains in memory, their general knowledge, and the social demands of the retrieval situation. Thus, memories will often contain some small errors and occasionally some large errors”. Discuss the quotation in the light of current theoretical and empirical evidence about memory research in psychology.