Determinism

• All physical events in universe occur in cause and effects relationships
• Thoughts, beliefs and behaviours are determined by past events and causes
• Determinism is a scientific view that implies complete knowledge of a cause and effect relationship will mean you can predict future behaviour in the same situation
• Determinism have shown events in physical universe operate according to cause and effect
• Determinism in unfalsifiable and is unable to be proved to be wrong
• Most approaches are determinist due to looking for patterns and causes
• Hard determinism completely rules the out the idea of free will
• Soft determinism is the viewpoint that we choose our behaviour but choices are a result of personality
• Psychodynamic, biological, cognitive and behaviourist approaches are all deterministic