free will and determinism

• free will is the idea that humans have the ability to make choices and their behaviour is not determined by biological or external forces
• determinism is the idea that behaviour is governed by internal or external factors, and that behaviour is predictable
• hard determinism is the idea that forces outside our control govern our behaviour for example schizophrenia
• soft determinism is the idea that our behaviour is constrained by the environment or biology but to a certain extent we have free will
• biological determinism refers to the idea that all human behaviour is innate and determined by genes

  for example, OCD being partly genetic (nedstadt)
• environmental determinism is the view that behaviour is caused by forces outside the individual

  for example phobias being acquired through conditioning
• psychic determinism is the view that human behaviour is the result of childhood experiences and innate drives

  for example id, ego, super ego, oedipus complex and electra complex