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- Similarities between Freud & Baron-Cohen
- Both look at understanding disorder
- Freud - looks at phobias
- Baron-Cohen - looks at autism
- Both used self-report
- Freud - Little Hans' dad asked him about dreams and sent them in a letter to Freud with his own analysis
- Baron-Cohen - They had to name the emotions
- Differences between Freud & Baron-Cohen
- Sample size
- Freud - a little boy
- Baron-Cohen - 50 neurotypical people, 16 people with autism and 10 people with tourettes
- Types of participants
- Freud - ended with Freud diagnosing Little Hans with anxiety / having a phobia
- Baron-Cohen - participants already diagnosed
- Similarities between Yerkes/Gould & Hancock
- Sample size
- Yerkes/Gould - All male - 1.75 mil from US army
- Hancock - had an all male sample - 52 males in prison
- Both trying to capture psychological construct they were investigating
- Yerkes/Gould - investigating intelligence
- Hancock - investigating language
- Differences between Yerkes/Gould & Hancock
- They are not equally generalisable
- Yerkes/Gould - Had a varied sample of 1.75 mil of different ages and backgrounds
- Hancock - only had 52 participants, 14 of which were psychopaths
- How data was collected
- Participants were given a specific researcher-created task to do and were analysed on how they did it
- Analysis was made of the normal behaviour of the prisoners (in terms of language used when describing their crime)
- Principles
- Seek to explain why people behave differently to each other
- Focuses on 'abnormal' behaviours such as mental illnesses
- Concepts
- Psychosexual development theory
- Theory of mind - the capacity to understand other peoples mental states
- Strengths
- Can be useful by suggesting treatments for health conditions
- Often uses case studies which gain a lot of detail in participants
- Weaknesses
- Small-scale case studies are often used which can limit generalisability
- Relies a lot on self-report which can reduce accuracy of results