+1 862 207 3288 In this essay I am going to examine and assess the proposition that experience shapes behaviour, I will examine them by drawing on examples from chapters 1 and 5 of Investigating Psychology. I will then look at memory which relates to performance rather than behaviour from chapter 9.
Let us look firstly at the large scale study that Adorno et al (1950) carried out and the findings he and his colleagues made. He carried out the authoritarian personality study which looked at whether there was a specific type of personality which was associated with prejudice. Adorno did this by using a field study; he distributed a questionnaire known as the fascism scale. After the Second World War people were left wandering how people could perform such atrocities and extreme violence. They asked the question was there a particular kind of person who could commit such acts of aggression. It is from …(short extract)
