A01

• What is soft determinism?


  All human action has a cause but the person have conscious mental control over behaviour
• What did James (1890) believe?


  That scientists should explain the determining forces acting upon us but we still have freedom to make choices
• What are the 2 kinds of soft determinism?


  • Cognitive-psych - free will is caused within deterministic limits
  • View that human behaviour and actions are determined by casual events - freedom from coercion and constraint