comparison of approaches

• is the biological approach free will or determinism ?

  • biological determinism - based on genes
• is the behaviourist approach free will or determinism ?

  • enviromental determinism - based on our stimulus response
• is social learning theory free will or determinism ?

  • soft determinism - acknowledges both enviroments influence and humans free choice
• is the cognitive approach free will or determinism ?

  • soft determinism - mediational processes but also humans choose what info they pay attention too
• is the psychodynamic approach free will or determinism ?

  • psychic determinism - behaviour determined by unconscious drives
• is the humanistic approach free will or determinism ?

  • free will - everyone controls own enviroment and is capable of change
• is the biological approach nature or nurture ?

  • nature - focuses on genes
• is the behaviourist approach nature or nurture ?

  • nurture - humans born as blank slates
• is the social learning theory nature or nurture ?

  • nurture - behaviour is learnt from our enviroment
• is the cognitive approach nature or nurture ?

  • nature / nurture - aspects of both , our processing is based on previous experiences
• is the psychodynamic approach nature or nurture ?

  • mostly nature - unconscious drives but early childhood experiences shape behaviour
• is the humanistic approach nature or nurture ?

  • nurture - humans have a drive to self actualize themselves
• is the biological approach reductionism or holism ?

  • biological reductionism - reduces us to biological processes
• is the behaviourist approach reductionism or holism ?

  • enviromental reductionism - simple stimulus response
• is social learning theory reductionism or holism ?

  • both - elements of behaviourist and cognitive approach
• is the cognitive approach reductionism or holism ?

  • enviromental reductionism - studies cognitive processes in isolation
• is the psychodynamic approach reductionism or holism ?

  • both - innate drives but also accounts for all aspects of human behaviour
• is the humanistic approach reductionism or holism ?

  • holism - rejects scientific methods and focuses on understanding all aspects of human experience
• is the biological approach idiographic or nomothetic ?

  • nomothetic - quantititave data gathered to make generalizations
• is the behaviourist approach idiographic or nomethetic ?

  • nomothetic - general rule of stimulus response scenarios
• is social learning theory idiographic or nomethetic ?

  • nomothetic - general laws on learning through observation
• is the cognitive approach idiographic or nomethetic ?

  • nomothetic - generally uses nomothetic approaches but also includes some case studies
• is the psychodynamic approach idiographic or nomethetic ?

  • both - nomothetic approaches but also takes into account personal childhood experiences ( idiographic )
• is the humanistic approach idiographic or nomethetic ?

  • idiographic - personal experience which is not generalisable
• is the biological approach scientific ?

  • scientific - focused on genes
• is the behaviourist approach scientific ?

  • scientific - lab experiments used to investigate classical conditioning
• is social learning theory scientific ?

  • mostly scientific - lab experiments but also mediational process which cant be observed
• is the cognitive approach scientific ?

  • mostly scientific - scientific methods but cant directly observe cognitive processes
• is the psychodynamic approach scientific ?

  • unscientific - many concepts which cant be tested
• is the humanistic approach scientific ?

  • unscientific - difficult to measure and observe