Idiographic And Nomothetic Flashcards
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Idiographic
A
Focuses on individuals and emphasises uniqueness
Favours qualitative methods
2
Q
Nomothetic
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Formulates general laws of behaviour based on the study of groups and use of quantitive techniques
3
Q
Examples of the idiographic approach?
A
Freuds study of little Hans
Humanistic psychologists favour it as they are concerned with the whole person and their subjective experience
4
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Examples of the nomothetic approach?
A
Behaviourist psychologists produce general laws of behaviour such as operant and classical conditioning
Cognitive psychology also, aims to develop general laws which apply to all people such as understanding typical memory processes (but also uses idiographic approach)
