Approach Determinism or Reductionist or Nomothetic or Nature or Is the Real-world
Free will? Holistic? idiographic? Nurture? approach applications
scientific?
Types of determinism: Hard, Types of reductionism: Nature, Nurture, or
Soft, Psychic, Environmental, Biological, Environmental interactionist
Biological
Psychodyna Psychic determinism H: Considers Idiographic Interactionist Uses case studies as >Dream therapy
mic Soft determinism behaviour a result of >Freud attempted to Nature: All his "evidence", though in
>Your childhood and instincts/drives, create a nomothetic processes are innate, a completely
repressed thoughts childhood, and the approach, yet all data e.g. psychosexual unscientific manner
affects your actions unconscious mind collection was stages, the
>However, this can be R: Short list of causes idiographic (case unconscious mind More than:
overcome through though not as short as studies) and so the Nurture: Your early > Humanism
therapy other approaches approach is childhood determines Less than:
idiographic who you will be > Cognitive, SLT,
Biological,
Behaviourism
Humanism Free will Holistic Idiographic Interactionist Complete rejection of >Rogerian therapy
>An assumption is that >Assumption that >No general laws, just Nature: Born with the scientific methods >Gestalt therapy
humans have free will humans are complex studies the individual drive to self-actualise >Maslow's hierarchy
creatures and cannot Nurture: Parent's More than: of needs is still
be studied reducing treatment of child >None frequently used
everything to one determines their later Less than:
factor thoughts and actions >Psychodynamic,
Cognitive, SLT,
Biological,
Behaviourism
Behaviouris Environmental Environmental Nomothetic Nurture Uses scientific >Token economies
m determinism reductionism >Skinner, Harlow, >Babies are born a methods and >CBT
Hard determinism >Behaviour is due to Pavlov etc completed blank slate and learn repetition >Phobias
>Your environment environment and only experiments on everything through >Behavioural science
determines who you the environment multiple test their environment More than: >Nudge Units
are subjects/participants >Humanistic,
>Though behaviour to form general laws Psychodynamic,
can be changed by Cognitive, SLT
counter-conditioning. Equal to:
>Biological
Cognitive Soft determinism H: Thoughts processes Nomothetic Interactionist Uses scientific >Cognitive
>Schemas determine including schemas are >Seeks to establish Nature: Cognitive methods such as fMRI neuroscience
Free will? Holistic? idiographic? Nurture? approach applications
scientific?
Types of determinism: Hard, Types of reductionism: Nature, Nurture, or
Soft, Psychic, Environmental, Biological, Environmental interactionist
Biological
Psychodyna Psychic determinism H: Considers Idiographic Interactionist Uses case studies as >Dream therapy
mic Soft determinism behaviour a result of >Freud attempted to Nature: All his "evidence", though in
>Your childhood and instincts/drives, create a nomothetic processes are innate, a completely
repressed thoughts childhood, and the approach, yet all data e.g. psychosexual unscientific manner
affects your actions unconscious mind collection was stages, the
>However, this can be R: Short list of causes idiographic (case unconscious mind More than:
overcome through though not as short as studies) and so the Nurture: Your early > Humanism
therapy other approaches approach is childhood determines Less than:
idiographic who you will be > Cognitive, SLT,
Biological,
Behaviourism
Humanism Free will Holistic Idiographic Interactionist Complete rejection of >Rogerian therapy
>An assumption is that >Assumption that >No general laws, just Nature: Born with the scientific methods >Gestalt therapy
humans have free will humans are complex studies the individual drive to self-actualise >Maslow's hierarchy
creatures and cannot Nurture: Parent's More than: of needs is still
be studied reducing treatment of child >None frequently used
everything to one determines their later Less than:
factor thoughts and actions >Psychodynamic,
Cognitive, SLT,
Biological,
Behaviourism
Behaviouris Environmental Environmental Nomothetic Nurture Uses scientific >Token economies
m determinism reductionism >Skinner, Harlow, >Babies are born a methods and >CBT
Hard determinism >Behaviour is due to Pavlov etc completed blank slate and learn repetition >Phobias
>Your environment environment and only experiments on everything through >Behavioural science
determines who you the environment multiple test their environment More than: >Nudge Units
are subjects/participants >Humanistic,
>Though behaviour to form general laws Psychodynamic,
can be changed by Cognitive, SLT
counter-conditioning. Equal to:
>Biological
Cognitive Soft determinism H: Thoughts processes Nomothetic Interactionist Uses scientific >Cognitive
>Schemas determine including schemas are >Seeks to establish Nature: Cognitive methods such as fMRI neuroscience
