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Using the studies from the list below, answer the questions which follow: Hodges (social relationships)SperryGould (IQ testing) a. What do these studies tell us that is useful? (10 marks)
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Some people argue that the main aim of psychology should be to produce findings that have useful applications, whilst others argue that psychology should be interesting as well as useful. However, some psychology seems to have no use at all. Using the studies from the list below, answer the questions which follow: Hodges (social relationships) Sperry Gould (IQ testing) a. What do these studies tell us that is useful? (10 marks) Jill Hodges and Barbara Tizard (1989) ~ Social and Family Relationships of Ex-Institutional Adolescents Sigmund Freud founded the psychoanalytic approach to child development. Freud held the argument that the unconscious mind contained repressed memories of childhood experiences and especially memories of early childhood conflicts and emotions. Freud was convinced that the first five years of life had a lasting impact on development. There are, of course, many criticisms of Freud's theory of child development. However many psychoanalysts (or neo-Freudians) still accept Freud's basic approach and have...
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