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What is determinism?

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  • Human behaviour of a product of forces beyond the control of the individual.
  • People have no control over their actions.
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What do determinists believe?

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  • Internal and external forces control a person’s behaviour
  • Behaviour should be predictable
  • Every behaviour has a cause
  • Determinism is a scientific account of behaviour
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What are the 5 types of determinism?

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  • Hard, soft, biological, environmental, psychic
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What is hard determinism?

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  • No action/behaviour is free
  • Every human action has a cause, one action is performed rather than another
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What is biological determinism?

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  • Biological/internal forces are out of a person’s control
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What is soft determinism?

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  • Individual’s behaviour is a direct result of the environment
  • Element of free will, but controlled by outside forces
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What is environmental determinism?

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  • External forces are out of a person’s control
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What is psychic determinism?

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  • All behaviours are the result and determined by unconscious forces linked with childhood and innate drives
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What are some strengths of determinism?

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  • More scientific, predictable (interventions - preventable)
  • Society would approve, can set up interventions
  • Isolates variables
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What are some limitations of determinism?

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  • Doesn’t take into account free-will
  • Won’t take responsibility, will say it’s out of their control
  • Society believes in choice
  • Implies behaviour can be predicted
  • Doesn’t take into account individual differences
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What is free-will?

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  • An individual’s ability to choose between certain behaviours
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What are some strengths of free-will?

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  • More likely to take responsibility, had a choice
  • Society believes in choice
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What are some limitations of free-will?

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  • Doesn’t take into account determinism
  • Less scientific, harder to predict.
  • Implies behaviour can’t be predicted
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What is nature?

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  • Behaviour can be inherited or down to internal factors like genetics
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What is nurture?

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  • Behaviour can be changed by external factors such as childhood, friends, etc.
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What are some strengths of nature?

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  • Too deterministic, more predictable
  • Too reductionist, scientific, objective measures
  • Takes dispositional factors into account
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What are some limitations of nature?

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  • Doesn’t take into account nurture
  • Less likely to take responsibility for their actions
  • Ignores situational factors
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What are some strengths of nurture?

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  • Can change behaviour
  • Takes situational factors into account
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What are some limitations of nurture?

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  • Doesn’t take into account nature
  • Not scientific, lacks objectivity
  • Ignores dispositional factors
  • Too reductionist, only external factors
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What is reductionism?

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  • Reduces behaviour down to 1 or 2 factors
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What is holism?

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  • Behaviour can be down to multiple factors
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What are some strengths of reductionism?

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  • Scientific, predictability, objective measures
  • Takes determinism into account
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What are some limitations of reductionism?

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  • Doesn’t take into account holism
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What are some strengths of holism?

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  • Takes free-will into account
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What are some limitations of holism?

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  • Doesn’t take into account reductionism
  • Less scientific, lacks objectivity, can’t predict
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What is individual?

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  • Behaviour is a result of the individual
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What is situational?

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  • Behaviour is a result of the situation
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What are some strengths of individual?

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  • More scientific
  • Takes into account nature (internal factors)
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What are some limitations of individual?

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  • Doesn’t take situational factors into account
  • Lower in ecological validity
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What are some strengths of situational?

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  • Higher in ecological validity
  • Takes into account nurture (external factors)
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What are some limitations of situational?

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  • Doesn’t take individual factors into account
  • Doesn’t take unique characteristics into account

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