free will and determinism

• Free will

  humans are self determine and free to choose actions

  doesn’t mean there isn’t a biological or environmental influence

  we can choose to reject these
• Free will approach

  humanistic
• Determinism

  Behaviour is governed by internal or external forces

  no control over

  behaviour is predictable
• Hard determinism

  Fatalistic

  all behaviour has a cause and is beyond our control

  science
• Soft determinism

  Cognitive approach

  behaviour is constrained by the environment or biological make up to an extent

  we have limited choice
• Biological Determinism

  all behaviour is innate and determined by genes

  eg mental disorders
• Environment Determinism

  behaviour determined by previous experiences

  classical conditioning

  operent conditioning
• Psychic Determinism

  Freud free will is an illusion

  behaviour is a result of childhood and innate drives
• Scientific Determinism

  seek to identify general laws eg lab