studies for determinism

• Freud - Little Hans

  Assumes that all behaviour is caused by innate drives and unconscious processing. He suggests that all individuals progress through the psychosexual stages and that behaviour in childhood is predictable.

  links to determinism as behaviour is predictable due to people having no control over their actions
• Sperry - split brain

  different functions are located within certain areas of the brain and these cause behaviour. Like many biological researchers, he suggests that the performance of tasks is due to the activation in the different brain structures

  links to determinism as it states that people have no control over their actions, shown through the brain structures
• Bandura et al - transmission of aggression

  believes that our learning from the environment determines our behaviour and that we can predict future behaviour based on influences such as aggressive models