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A nomothetic approach studies a sample in order to formulate general principles of behaviour.A limitation of this approach is that it cannot generate rich and in-depth research on single cases.

Outline a weakness - it relies on animal studies
Give evidence - Pavlov, Skinner
Explain - this makes it difficult to generalise to humans, lacks ecological validity
Link back - this makes ...

Firstly, you must analyse what the question is asking. For example, the question may be to outline and evaluate genetic explanations of OCD. The question is asking you to outline and evaluate, and therefo...

In 1963, Milgram conducted a study whereby participants were asked to administer an electric shock to another participant (who was actually a confederate) upon incorrectly pairing words. Each time a the p...

Atypical antipsychotics are known as second generation antipsychotics as they came about in the late 90's they treat both the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. An example is clozapine. It w...