Free Will and Determinism
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- Created on: 28-03-18 14:19
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- A01: Free Will and Determinism
- Free Will
- Human beings are free to choose their thoughts and actions
- Implies we can reject biological and environmental influences on our behaviour
- This is the view of the humanistic approach
- Hard Determinism
- All human action has a cause tht can be identified
- What we do is caused by external forces that we can't control
- Soft Determinism
- All human has a cause, but people have conscious mental control over their behaviour
- James (1890): scientists should ecplain the determining forces acting on us, but we still have freedom to make choices
- Biological determinism
- Physiological processes are not under conscious control
- Genetic factors determine behaviours and characteristics
- Hormones may determine some behaviour
- Environmental determinism
- All behaviour is the result of conditioning
- Behaviour is shaped by environmental events and agents of socialisation e.g. parents
- Psychic determinism
- Biological drives and instincts underpin psychological responses
- Behaviour is determined and directed by unconscious conflicts repressed in childhood
- Free Will
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