Free Will and Determinism

• Define Soft determinism

  William James coined this term. It is that belief that while human actions do have a cause and aspects of our behaviour are pre-determined, we still have some "room to maneuver" that can still exert some of conscious mental control which mediates and influences the impact of that cause on our behaviour e.g. the cognitive mediational process in SLT
• Define Hard Determinism

  Also known as fatalism, and is the belief that all behaviour has a cause and these are controlled by internal/external factors that we don't have any conscious control over. Therefore free will has no impact on behaviour