Idiographic and Nomothetic Approach and Thematic
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- Created on: 07-10-16 08:14
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- Idiographic
- Study of individuals + the unique insights each individual gives us about human behaviour
- collect qualitative data, indepth
- e.g. unstructured interviews, case studies and thematic analysis
- Examples
- Freud and the case study of Little Hans and his interpretations
- e.g. Oedipus complex
- Nomothetic
- Study of large numbers of people then making generalisations based on general laws and prinicples
- Quantitative data (Statistical data)
- e.g. central tendency, dispersion, graphs and statistical data
- Idiographic
- Study of individuals + the unique insights each individual gives us about human behaviour
- collect qualitative data, indepth
- e.g. unstructured interviews, case studies and thematic analysis
- Examples
- Freud and the case study of Little Hans and his interpretations
- e.g. Oedipus complex
- Nomothetic
- Study of large numbers of people then making generalisations based on general laws and prinicples
- Quantitative data (Statistical data)
- e.g. central tendency, dispersion, graphs and statistical data
- Examples
- Biological
- Portray how the body and brain work
- Chemicals e.g. serotonin
- Genetics e.g. Crimongenic
- HM , but wont effect everyone thee same
- Behavourist
- Classical conditioning
- Pavlov- learn by association
- Operant conditioning
- Skinner- learn by direct consequence
- Classical conditioning
- Cognitive
- Clive Wearing, HM, Phineas Gage
- Compared to Idiographic psychometric testing known as EPQ is used to produce personality type un/stable and extra/intovert
- Biological
- Psychodynamic
- Humanistic approach
- They believe that the most important thing is the persons subjective experience
- Study of Jenny Allport
- 301 letters between 1926 - 1937
- Tied together themes of her views on subjective perception, emotions and feelings
- Analysis of letters showed different personality traits
- 301 letters between 1926 - 1937
- Freud and the case study of Little Hans and his interpretations
- Examples
- Biological
- Portray how the body and brain work
- Chemicals e.g. serotonin
- Genetics e.g. Crimongenic
- HM , but wont effect everyone thee same
- Behavourist
- Classical conditioning
- Pavlov- learn by association
- Operant conditioning
- Skinner- learn by direct consequence
- Classical conditioning
- Cognitive
- Clive Wearing, HM, Phineas Gage
- Compared to Idiographic psychometric testing known as EPQ is used to produce personality type un/stable and extra/intovert
- Biological
- Psychodynamic
- Humanistic approach
- They believe that the most important thing is the persons subjective experience
- Study of Jenny Allport
- 301 letters between 1926 - 1937
- Tied together themes of her views on subjective perception, emotions and feelings
- Analysis of letters showed different personality traits
- 301 letters between 1926 - 1937
- Freud and the case study of Little Hans and his interpretations
- Idiographic is less scientific
- Thematic
- Qualitative is summarised by identifying repeated themes in the material to be analysed
- Main intentions
- Impose an order of data
- The order represents participants perspective
- Order emerges from data not preconception
- Summarise and Conclude
- Disadvatages
- Lengthy process may be out of date
- Subjective
- Advantage
- Can compare past to present
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