Freewill vs Determinism

• Free will: the notion that humans can make choices and are not determined by biological or external forces
• Determinism: the view that an individual's behaviour is shaped or controlled by internal or external forces rather than an individuals will to do something
• Hard determinism: implies that free will is not possible as our behaviour is always caused by internal and external events beyond our control
• Soft determinism: all events, including human behaviour, have causes, but behaviour can also be determined by our conscious choices in the absence of coercion. In contrast with hard determinism
• Biological determinism: the belief that behaviour is caused by biological (genetic, hormonal, evolutionary) influences that we cannot control
• Psychic determinism: the belief that behaviour is caused by unconscious conflicts that we cannot control
• Environmental determinism: the belief that behaviour is caused by features of the environment (such as systems of reward and punishment) that we cannot control
• Biological approach: hard, biological determinism
• Cognitive approach: soft determinism, mixture of biological and environmental determinism
• SLT: soft, environmental determinism
• Behaviourism: hard, environmental determinism
• Psychodynamic approach: hard, psychic determinism
• Humanistic: free will