Approaches

• Both the psychodynamic approach and social learning theory emphasise the role

  of identification with the same sex parent in development.
• The humanistic approach is more holistic than the biological approach as it

  focuses on the whole individual whilst the biological approach reduces complex

  human behaviour to single components such as genes.
• One similarity between the behaviourist approach and the cognitive approach is

  they both use experiments as their main research method. Another similarity is

  that they both can be considered to be reductionist, the behaviourist approach

  has environmental reductionism and the cognitive approach has machine

  reductionism.
• The psychodynamic and humanistic approach are similar in the fact they both

  use interviews as one of their main methods of investigation. This shows how

  they both take an idiographic approach to research and focus on the experiences

  of the individual. However the psychodynamic approach has psychic determinism

  where it argues behaviour is determined by our unconscious which we have no

  control over whilst the humanistic approach states that all individuals have free

  will and can choose how to behave in any given situation.