Intro to individual diffs
- Created by: grxcechild
- Created on: 04-04-19 13:50
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- Intro
- Two approaches
- Nomothetic
- Investigates large groups
- Based on numerical data
- Attempts to generalise people
- Uses objective knowledge
- Idiographic
- Focuses on uniqueness
- Uses subjective experiences
- Based on study of uniqueness of individual
- Nomothetic
- Definition by Allport
- 1. l “…the dynamic organisation within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determine his [sic] unique adjustments to his [sic] environment” (Allport, 1937:48).
- 2. l “…a dynamic organisation inside the person of psychophysical systems that create the persons characteristic patterns of behaviour thoughts and feelings” (Allport, 1961)
- Two approaches
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