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Describe what each study tells us about how behaviour is learned or inherited.
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Describe what each study tells us about how behaviour is learned or inherited. Milgram's study tells us that our behaviour is strongly influenced by people in Authority. It shows that even if people don't want to act in a certain way, they do because they are simply obeying orders. Milgram's results for his experiment were shocking and showed that people were prepared to carry out horrific actions if they were instructed by people in authority. The study implies that behaviour is learned because our decision to act in a certain way would be influenced by external factors. Deregowski's study investigates how different cultures perceive pictures differently. From his study Deregowski concluded that that the majority of people in western countries are 3D perceivers and the majority of people in LEDC's are 2D perceivers. This suggests that some culture perceive things differently because of the surroundings they have been brought up in. For...
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