Idiographic and Nomothetic Approaches

Question 1

idiographic approach

Answer 1

focus on subjective, individual cases to understand behaviour rather than formulate general laws/models of behaviour

Question 2

nomothetic approach

Answer 2

studying a large sample of people, using findings to generate general laws/models of behaviour; generalise and make predictions about human behaviour

Question 3

is the nomothetic approach subjective or objective

Answer 3

objective

Question 4

is the idiographic approach subjective or objective

Answer 4

subjective