Idiographic And Nomothetic Approaches Flashcards

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Idiographic

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Focus on individuals and their unique characteristics as explaining human behaviour

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Qualitative research

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Case study

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Nomothetic approach

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Study of large numbers of people to establish laws about behaviour

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Quantitative research

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Large data sets used to calculate averages

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