Idiographic and Nomothetic Flashcards

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idiographic approach

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focus research on individuals

produce qualitative data such as case studies, unstructured interviews and other self-report methods

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humanistic psychology

idiographic

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rogers and maslow were concerned with unique experience rather than producing general laws of behaviour

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nomothetic approach

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research aims to formulate general laws of human behaviour

produce quantitative data such as experiments

produce measure of central tendency adn dispersion

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cognitive approach

nomothetic approach

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miller tested memory of large samples of people

formulate principles of memory

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biological psychologists

nomothetic approach

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scans on brains

generalisations about localisation of function

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