Idiographic and Nomothetic approaches

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    • What is the idiographic approach?
      • attempts to describe nature of individual
      • each person is seen as unique with their own subjective experiences
      • gains insight on how the person views the world
      • no general laws to compare to larger group
      • uses qualitative data- case studies, unstructured interviews, open questions
    • Examples of idiographic
      • humanistic approach-phenomenological approach, looks at experience of the individual, describes themselves as anti scientific
      • pyschodynamic approach-
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