evaluating the approach

• strength is its idiographic
• means psychologists want to discover what makes each of us unique
• Bowlby was able to gather highly detailed information about case studies of children, to produce data high in validity
• strength because high in validity and Acknowledges that all humans are unique
• Strength

  It considers the complex interaction between nature and nurture.
• psychologists acknowledge that biological, social and learning factors may ALL play a role.
• strength as it ensures that all possible significant factors in a behaviour are acknowledged and investigated.
• Limitation is that it is Reductionist
• Simplifies behaviour to the mechanics of and the mind and ignores certain factors e.g. genetics
• strength as It may offer an explanation that is perhaps too simplistic.