APPROACHES - COMPARING APPROACHES Flashcards
What is reductionism?
The view that behaviour should be studied by breaking down the individual into its smaller components
Define Holism
The idea that human behaviour should be viewed as a whole integrated experience, and not as separate parts
Define idiographic
In terms of approaches, focusing on the individual and emphasising the unique personal experience of human nature
Define nomothetic
In psychology, the concern with general laws, based on the study of large groups of people
What approaches believe in free will?
Humanistic
What approaches are deterministic?
- Biological approach
- Behaviourist approach
- Social Learning Theory
- Cognitive approach
- Psychodynamic approach
What approaches take the nature debate?
- Biological approach
- Cognitive approach
- Psychodynamic approach
What approaches take the nurture debate?
- Behaviourist approach
- Social learning theory
- Cognitive approach
- Humanistic approach
What approaches are reductionist?
- Biological approach
- Behaviourist approach
- Social learning theory
- Cognitive approach
- Psychodynamic approach
What approach is holistic?
- Humanistic approach
- Psychodynamic approach
What approaches are nomothetic?
- Biological approach
- Behaviourist approach
- Social learning theory
- Cognitive approach
- Psychodynamic approach
What approaches are idiographic?
- Cognitive approach
- Psychodynamic approach
- Humanistic approach
What approaches are scientific?
- Biological approach
- Behaviourist approach
- Social learning theory
- Cognitive approach
What approaches are non-scientific?
- Psychodynamic approach
- Humanistic approach
Explain how the biological approach is determinist
- Biological determinism
- intelligence research suggests intelligence is determined by genetic factors - 60-80%
Explain how the behaviourist approach is determinist
- Environmental determinism
- Pavlov demonstrated behaviour is determined through association between stimulus and response
Explain how SLT is determinist
- Bandura demonstrated that behaviour is determined by vicarious learning - observation of a model