idiographic vs nomothetic

• biological


  creates universal laws as humans share similar psychology (nomothetic)
• behaviourist


  creates universal laws as humans behaviour is the result of stimulus-response associations (nomothetic)
• cognitive

  
  

  attempts to establish general laws of cognitive processing but utilises idiographic approach with case studies (nomothetic)
• social learning theory


  attempts to establish general laws of behaviour (nomothetic)
• psychodynamic 


  attempts to establish general laws in relation to innate drives while considering unique experience during childhood (nomothetic and idiographic)
• humanistic 


  focus on the subjective human experience and makes no attempt to create general laws (idiographic)