idiographic and Nomothetic

Question 1

what does idiographic approach attempt to do

Answer 1

attempts to describe nature f the individual people

Question 2

how are the people studies

Answer 2

they are studied as unique entities each with their own subjective experiences otivations and values with no attempt to compare these to a larger group or standardised norm

Question 3

how is the data colected

Answer 3

as qualitative dta such as case studies uses unstructured interviews and self report studies

Question 4

what is the central aim of the idiographic approach

Answer 4

to describe the richness of human experience and gain an insight into the personal unique way of viewing the world

Question 5

what is an example of the idiographic approach

Answer 5

rogers and marslow infered unconscious explanations for behaviours self humanistic psychology investigate the unique experiences and refrains from producing genralised laws

we use methods like case studies to understand unique experiences whilst psychodynamic may be considered to be idiographic they use singular experience and tries to come up with theories to genralise it to all

Question 6

what is the mains aims of the nomothetic approach

Answer 6

to produce genral laws of human behavioir these provide a benchmark against when people cna be compared, classified and measured on this basis future behaviiour can be objectively predicted or controled .

Question 7

what methods does the nomothtic approach use

Answer 7

uses scientific methods such as experiments obsevrations, quantiitve variables operationalised variables statistical analysis

Question 8

why do we do such quantiive measurements

Answer 8

so we can study a large number of people and see what is simmilair

Question 9

what are the examples of nomothetic research

Answer 9

a vast majority of behaviourist approach will be considered nomothetic skinner studied responses of hundreds of animals to develop laws of learning these laws such as positiv ereinforcement are then applied to humans

Question 10

what do biological psychologist suggest

Answer 10

they have conducted brain scans on numerous brains to make it more genralised hypotheis are vigorously tested and statistically analysed genral laws and prinicples are proposed

Question 11

what is the point for the restriction of idiographic approach

Answer 11

idiographic approach and the data collected is narrow and restricted

Question 12

what is the evidence for the narrow restriction

Answer 12

data collected on one offf individual case studies are indepth and informative however there are no baseline to measure comparison so it is difficult to identify whather behaviour is abnormal or not

Question 13

what is the issue with qwualitative

Answer 13

IT IS QUALITATIVE SO IT IS SUBJECTIVE AND CAN LEAD TO INVESTIGATOR BIAS RESULTS SO WE CANNOT REPLICATE AND WE DONT KNOW IF THE RESULTS ARE RELIABLE SO DECREASE VALIDITY

Question 14

Nomothetic and person approach

Answer 14

an issue with the nomothetic approach is that it loses the whole person approach and doesnt allow us to appreciate the richness of human experiences and behaviour

Question 15

what is the evidence of the losisng the whole person

Answer 15

genral laws, predictability doesnt allow us to fully understand the emotional feeling asociated with behaviour , NA informs us of genral laws like schizophrenia and gives us little understanding of the individual experiences of schizophrenia

Question 16

what is the explanation and link for loss of whole person

Answer 16

in searching genralisation is overlooks the richness of human behaviour and experience and adopting a pure NA hinders our understanding of human behaviour

Question 17

A strength of idiographic details

Answer 17

the idiographic studies are indepth

Question 18

what is the evidence of the indepth study

Answer 18

they typically use qualitative methods of investigation proviidng a complete account of the individual case studies such as clive wearing

Question 19

what is the explanation of the indepth data

Answer 19

this is better than a na as insteasd of seeing case studies as a one off anomoly we gather indepth data leading to a better understanding of memory whilst nomothetic approach ignores and leaves out anomolies

Question 20

what is the link for indepth data

Answer 20

idiographic treats every iindividual as uniqyue and leads to more valid conclusion

Question 21

what does nomothetic allow by being scientific

Answer 21

nomothetic approach is more scientific allowing for practical application

Question 22

what is the evidence of nomothetic and practical application

Answer 22

to develop our undertsanidng and practical application to genral population, nomothetic approach test variable under standard conditions and controls using quantiitve methods such as group experiments which allows us to come up with statistical analysis and standard deviations which help develop an idea of typical behaviour and hypothesis testing

Question 23

what does it allow you to develop

Answer 23

a cut off point which are objective allowing better comparison between people leads to an accurate diagnosis . IQ is average 100 so below 70 seen to have IDD so it is seen abnormal objectively increases credibility of psychology as a science