COMPARING APPROACHES

• Ideographic vs Nomothetic?

  Biological - Nomothetic

  Behaviourism - Nomothetic

  SLT - Nomothetic

  Cognitive - Both

  Psychodynamic - Nomothetic

  Humanistic - Ideographic
• Scientific or not

  Biological - scientific

  Behaviourist - scientific

  SLT - mostly scientific

  Cognitive - mostly scientific

  Psychodynamic - not scientific

  Humanistic - not scienficic
• Nature vs Nurture

  Biological - nature

  Behaviourism - nurture

  SLT - Nurture

  Cognitive - both (interactionist view)

  Psychodynamic - both

  Humanistic - mostly nurture
• Determinism vs Free Will

  Biological - Biological Determinism

  Behaviourism - hard environmental determinism

  SLT - soft environmental determinism

  Cognitive - soft determinism

  Psychodynamic - hard psychic determinism

  Humanistic - Free Will
• Free Will

  Humanistic
• Reductionism vs Holism

  Biological - biological reductionism

  Behaviourism - environmental reductionism

  SLT - environmental reductionism

  Cognitive - reductionist

  Psychodynamic - reductionist

  Humanistic - Holism