A01

• idiographic

  • method which focuses on individuals and emphasises their unique, subjective experience used as a way of explaining behaviour
• methods used

  -       Produce qualitative data 

  -       Can’t generalise findings 

  -       Case study eg hm and kf.
• idiographic examples


  The psychodynamic approach: Freud used case studies and in-depth interviews to collect qualitative data from Little Hans; data which later formed the basis of the Oedipus and Electra complexes. 

   The humanistic approach adopts a holistic approach to research, focuses on subjective experiences of individuals eg by rogers and maslow