free will and determinism

• Free Will


  we are self determining, biological and environmental influences can be rejected, the humanistic approach
• Hard determinism


  all human behaviours have a cause
• soft determinism


  freedom within restricted range of choices
• biological determinism


  autonomic nervous system cause stress response, genes cause mental health problems
• environmental determinism 


  we are the sum of reinforcement contingencies: free will is an illusion
• psychic determinism 


  behaviour cause by unconscious childhood conflicts
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  excuse for immoral behaviour - Mobley - claimed he was 'born to kill' due to history of family violence

  
  

  biological and environmental determinism unable to explain depressions and intelligence on its own
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  + determinism led to development of drug treatments eg Sz and depression drugs

  
  

  + free will has practical value - Roberts - adolescents with a strong belief in fatalism were more at risk of depression