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Identify one example of behaviour of current interest, either from the
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Essentials of Applied Psychology (): Assignment 1 8 February, 2005 page 1 of 9 Identify one example of behaviour of current interest, either from the press/media or from your experience or professional practice. Choose two theoretical perspectives from psychology and suggest ways in which each would explain and investigate the behaviour. Critically compare the two approaches in terms of their ability to explain and investigate the behaviour. In January 2005 the celebrity edition of the reality television programme Big Brother featured in the news as Germaine Greer, one of the participating celebrities, left the programme early as she did not "want to be part of their [other contestants'] undoing" (Greer 2005:7). Private Eye (issue 1124 January 2005:5) and several Internet discussion fora 1 reported that before the Big Brother phenomenon was launched in 2000, the production company, Endemol, studied Zimbardo's 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE), and it is impossible not to see the immediate parallels to...
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