Idiographic and Nomothetic Flashcards
1
Q
idiographic approach
A
focus research on individuals
produce qualitative data such as case studies, unstructured interviews and other self-report methods
2
Q
humanistic psychology
idiographic
A
rogers and maslow were concerned with unique experience rather than producing general laws of behaviour
3
Q
nomothetic approach
A
research aims to formulate general laws of human behaviour
produce quantitative data such as experiments
produce measure of central tendency adn dispersion
4
Q
cognitive approach
nomothetic approach
A
miller tested memory of large samples of people
formulate principles of memory
5
Q
biological psychologists
nomothetic approach
A
scans on brains
generalisations about localisation of function
