comparison of approaches

Question 1

humanistic

Answer 1

• holistic
• free will
• idiographic
• non-scientific and cannot be falsified
• practical applications - client centered therapy
• questionaires interviews

Question 2

psychodynamic

Answer 2

• physic determinism - behaviour is caused by unconscsious conflict
• non scientific and unfalsifibiale
• practical applications - psychoanalysis
• interactionist - psychodynamic approach assumes
  behaviour is driven by unconscious forces, eg id/ego/superego dynamics (nature) but our coping
  mechanisms such as defence mechanisms arise from experience (nurture)
• case studies

Question 3

biological

Answer 3

• scientific - labs
• determnistic
  -reductionist
• practical applications - drug therapy and SSRIs
• nomothetic
• nature

Question 4

cognitive

Answer 4

• nomothetic
• scientific
• practical applications -CBT
• machine reductionist
• free will
• labs, inferences

Question 5

social learning theory

Answer 5

• soft determinism
• nurture
• scientific
• nomothetic
• lab studies

Question 6

behaviourist

Answer 6

• nurture
• nomthetic
• reductionist
• deterministic
• research support
• scientific
• practical applications (S.D)