idiographic and nomothetic

Question 1

debate for idiographic and nomothetic

Answer 1

whether we can make general laws of behaviour and apply to everyone or we only focus on the individual and make no attempt to generalise

Question 2

idiographic and nomothetic meaning

Answer 2

I- Focus solely on the individual and emphasise on unique personal experience of human nature
N- establishing general laws based on the study of large groups of people

Question 3

idiographic and nomothetic research examples

Answer 3

I- case studies and unstructured interviews

N- experiments and structured interviews

Question 4

approaches that are idiographic and nomothetic

Answer 4

I- humanistic, SA from Maslow’s hierarchy of needs

N- biological (drug therapy) + behavioural (uses animals to apply to humans)

Question 5

type of data for idiographic and nomothetic

Answer 5

i- qualitative

n- quantitative