Issues and Debates

• Free will:

  People have free will
• Idiographic:

  Belief in uniqueness - more inclined toward idiographic approach
• Nurture:

  Favours nurture side - experience shapes you and your self-worth
• Holistic:

  Explicitly holistic

  Doesn't try to break down behaviour to fundamental processes
• Non-scientific:

  Lack of impact on academic psychology

  Non-scientific approach to studying humans

  Lacks empirical data
• Gender bias:

  Maslow looked at mainly men