Determinism

• Behavioural approach


  Sees all behaviour as environmentally determined by external influences we are unables to control
• Biological approach

  Advocates genetic determinism and assumes that our behaviour is directed by innate forces
• Psychodynamic approach


  Psychic determinism is the key feature of the psychodynamic approach as we do not know the unconscious forces driving our behaviour and these are rationalised by our conscious minds
• Cognitive approach


  We are choosers of our thoughts and behaviours yet these choices can only operate within the limits of what we know/experienced
• Social learning theory

  Reciprocal determinism which is the idea that as well as being influenced by the environment, we also exert some influence upon it
• Humanistic approach

  Only the humanistic approach has complete free will and we operate as active agents who determine their own behaviour