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Section B(b) Evaluate what psychologists have found out about 'Environmental Disaster' and 'Technological Disaster' Environmental disasters are occasions when nature takes control and causes large amounts of damage or even death while technological catastrophes refer to incidents that are due to human factors. The firsts issue to be considered is Reductionism. This can be defined as explaining complex behavior in terms of simple causes. There are many psychological and physical effects of disasters on individuals, but some psychologists are reductionist and stress that it's the disasters that cause the after effects of an individual rather than considering what the individuals were like before the disaster. Fukuda et al - 1999 examined post traumatic stress and lifestyle change after the Hansin-Awajie earthquake in Japan. They were interested in the relationship between the change of lifestyle caused by the earthquake and psychological tress. They found that those who reported that their lifestyle had changed...

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