Evaluating The Approach Flashcards

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What is DRAINS?

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Determinism vs Free will
Reductionism vs Holism
Applied successfully
Idiographic vs Nomothetic
Nature vs Nurture
Scientific vs non scientific

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What does determinism mean ?

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Behaviour is determined by internal and external factors acting on a person over which we have no control.

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What does free will mean?

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Free will proposes we have choice and that we are free to choose our behaviour. A person is responsible for their own actions.

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What is reductionism ?

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Reductionism means explaining a behaviour by reducing it down to its constituent parts.
Taking a complex phenomenon and reducing it to simpler parts.

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What is holism ?

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Holism looks at higher level explanations; the whole is greater than the sum of its parts

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What does applications mean?

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Applications are where psychological knowledge has been used for some purpose. Psychological knowledge has traditionally been used in therapies, but it has also aided in education and many other fields.

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What does idiographic mean?

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Idiographic - Psychologists want to discover what makes each of us unique.
Looks at individual differences.

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What does nomothetic mean ?

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Nomothetic - Psychologists are concerned with what similarities we share with others. They like to establish ‘laws’ or generalisations.

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What does nature mean ?

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Nature - Psychologists emphasise the importance of innate factors (genetics) over social factors (environments)

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What does nurture mean?

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Nurture - Psychologists emphasise the importance of social or learning factors over innate factors.

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What does scientific mean ?

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Scientific – where research has been carried out in a controlled, objective, replicable way; hypothesis formed and tested.

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What does non scientific mean ?

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Unscientific – where the concepts investigated by the approach are unfalsifiable, or the methods used are subjective.

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