Free will and determinism

Question 1

Determinism

Answer 1

Behaviour us controlled by external or internal factors acting upon the individual.

Question 2

Free will

Answer 2

An individual has the power to make choices about their behaviour.

Question 3

Hard determinism

Answer 3

All behaviour can be predicted and their is no free will, the two are incompatible.

Question 4

Soft determinism

Answer 4

A version of determinism that allows for some free will.

Question 5

Biological determinism

Answer 5

Behaviours are determined by our genes

-e.g research on intelligence has shown their is a gene found in people with high intelligence. (hill et al)

Question 6

Environmental determinism

Answer 6

All behaviour is caused by previous experience through the process of conditioning.
-e,g behaviourist explanation of phobias

Question 7

Psychic determinism

Answer 7

Adult behaviour is determined by innate drives (e.g lobido) and early experience. (e.g if a child is frustrated or overindulged, the libido remains fixated in that relevant erogenous zone. (internal and external)

Question 8

Scientific determinism

Answer 8

All events have a cause and effect (IV and DV)

-e.g Harlows attachment study.

Question 9

Humanistic approach (free will)

Answer 9

Argue self-determinism is crucial to human behaviour.
Without it self actualisation and development will not be achieved. (maslow and rodgers) #look at after revising approaches

Question 10

Moral responsibility

Answer 10

All humans are accoutable for their own actions, just under a moral responsibility