Free Will and Determinism Flashcards
1
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what approach suggest that causes are internal?
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- behaviourist approach
2
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what approach embraces the concept of free will?
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humanistic approach
3
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what is free will?
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- suggests that human beings are essentially self-determining and free to choose their own thoughts and actions
- we are able to reject the biological and environmental forces if we wish as we are in control of out thoughts and behaviour
- advocated by the humanistic approach
4
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what is determinism?
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- free will have no place in explaining behaviour and there are two versions
- hard and soft determinism
5
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what is hard determinism?
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- suggests that all human behaviour has a cause and it is possible to identify and describe these causes
- everything that we think and do is dictated by internal or external forces that we cannot control
6
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what is soft determinism?
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- important feature of the cognitive approach
- scientist explain what determines our behaviour and this doesn’t detract from the freedom we have to make rational and conscious choices in everyday situations
7
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what are the types of determinism?
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- hard determinism
- soft determinism
- biological determinism
- environmental determinism
- psychic determinism
8
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what is biological determinism?
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9
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what is environmental determinism?
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10
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what is psychic determinism?
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11
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what is the scientific emphasis on causal explanations?
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- basic principles of a science is that every event in the universe has a cause and that causes ca be explained using general laws(hard determinism)
- knowledge of causes and formulation of laws are importance as they allow scientists to produce and control events in the future
- lab experiment is the ideal of science as it enables researchers to demonstrate causal relationships
- all variables are controlled
