Nomothetic

• Explanations for conformity

  It suggests that everyone conforms due to one of these explanations.
• Social-psychological explanations of obedience

  Suggests that everyone obeys due to learning about the legitimacy of authority or due to being in an agentic state.
• The authoritarian personality

  Suggests that everyone with an authoritarian personality obeys.
• Locus of control

  Suggests that everyone with an internal LOC resist social influence and people with an external LOC do not resist social influence.
• Social support

  Suggests that everyone will resist social influence if someone else does.
• Multi-store model


  Suggests that this is how everyone stores memories.
• Factors affecting EWT

  Suggests that these factors influence how everyone recalls information.
• Working memory model

  Suggests that this explains how everyone's memories are stored.
• Interference

  Suggests that everyone forgets due to memories interfering.
• Retrieval failure

  Suggests that everyone forgets due to not having the same state when learning info.
• Bowlby's maternal deprivation hypothesis

  Suggests that everyone with deprivation will face the consequences.
• Internal working model/continuity hypothesis

  Suggests that everyone's childhood attachment influences their adult relationships.
• Ainsworth strange situation


  Suggests that all children with the same attachment type will behave in the same way.
• Bowlby's monotropic theory 


  Suggests that all children attach in the same way.
• Learning theory of attachment 


  Suggests that all children attach due to food.
• Stages of attachment

  Suggests that children go through all stages of attachment.
• Behaviourist approach to phobias

  Suggests that all people develop and maintain phobias in the same way.
• Cognitive approach to depression

  Suggests that all people develop depression due to faulty thought processes.
• Biological approach to OCD

  Suggests that people develop OCD due to biological processes.
• Behaviourist approach

  Suggests that behaviour is due to processes like conditioning and reinforcement.
• Biological approach

  Suggests that behaviour is due to biological factors.
• Cognitive approach

  Suggests that behaviour is due to cognitive factors.
• Psychodynamic approach

  Suggests that behaviour is due to the unconscious mind.
• Flight or fight 


  Suggests that everyone responds to fear in this way.
• Hemispheric lateralisation 


  Suggests everyone' s brain is lateralized.
• Functional recovery

  Suggests that everyone's brain recovers in similar ways.
• Biological explanation of SZ

  Suggests that SZ is due to genetics and dopamine.
• Psychological explanation of SZ

  Suggests that SZ is due to family dysfunction and cognitive factors.
• Genetic factors in aggression

  Suggests that aggression is due to genetic factors or having a MAOA gene variant.
• Frustration-aggression hypothesis

  Suggests that aggression is due to feeling frustrated.
• Neural and hormonal mechanisms in aggression

  Suggests that aggression is due to biological mechanisms like serotonin and testosterone.
• Deindividuation

  Suggests that when anyone is in a deindividuated state they will become aggressive.
• Social learning theory in gender

  Suggests that when anyone is in a deindividuated state they will become aggressive.
• Psychodynamic approach to gender development

  Suggests that children develop their gender identity due to resolving the complexes.
• Explanations to gender dysphoria

  Suggests that gender dysphoria is caused by biological factors like too much testosterone exposure or conditioning.
• Kohlberg's theory

  Suggests that children go through all the stages of gender development.