comparing approaches

• ideographic vs nomothetic

  biological - nomothetic

  behaviourism - nomothetic

  SLT - nomothetic

  cognitive - both

  psychodynamic - nomothetic

  humanistic - idiographic
• scientific or not

  biological - science

  behaviourism - science

  Slt - mostly science

  cognitive - mostly science

  psychodynamic - not science

  humanistic - not science
• nature vs nurture

  biological - nature

  behaviourism - nurture

  SLT - nurture

  cognitive - both (interactionism)

  psychodynamic - both

  humanistic - 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

  humanism
• reductionism vs holism

  biological - biological reductionism

  behaviourism - environmental reductionism

  SLT - environmental reductionism

  cognitive - reductionism

  psychodynamic - reductionism

  humanist - holism