Comparing Approaches

• Biological Approach:

  • Hard Biological Determinism
  • Mostly Nature
  • Biological Reductionist
  • Nomothetic
  • Scientific
• Behaviourist Approach:

  • Hard Determinism
  • Nurture
  • Environmental Reductionist
  • Nomothetic
  • Scientific
• Social Learning Theory:

  • Soft Environmental Determinism
  • Nurture
  • Reductionist
  • Nomothetic
  • Scientific
• Cognitive Approach:

  • Soft Determinism
  • Mostly Nurture
  • Reductionist
  • Nomothetic
  • Mostly Scientific
• Psychodynamic Approach:

  • Hard Psychic Determinism
  • Interactionist
  • Reductionist
  • Nomothetic but studied Ideographically
  • Not Scientific
• Humanistic Approach:

  • Free Will
  • Interactionist
  • Holistic
  • Ideographic
  • Rejects Science