The nomothetic approach - AO1 Flashcards
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What is the Nomothetic approach ?
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- Involves studying a large number of people.
- Seeks to develop general laws/theories about their behaviour.
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Quantitative research:
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- Based on numbers
- e.g measures of central tendency and dispersion, graphs.
- Such calculations require data from groups of people rather than individuals.
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Example of a Nomothetic approach Behaviourist approach.
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- Behaviourist psychologists produced general laws about behaviour - classical and operant conditioning.
- Research didn’t include thousands participants but they were seeking one set of rules for all animals - humans and non humans.
