free will/determinism

• science attempts to demonstrate a causal relationship
• this relationship is between the independent variable and the dependent variable
• free will is when individuals have full conscious control of their actions
• determinism is when actions are predetermined to be a certain way
• environmental determinism - actions are a result of prior learning
• biological determinism - actions that are the result of physical processes like genes and hormones
• pyschic determinism - actions are a result of unconscious drives that we are not aware of
• hard determinism - there is no role for free will and all actions are fully determined
• soft determinism - consciousness can be a over-ride over determining factors
• two approaches that are most closely linked with soft determinism are social learning theory and cognitive