Issues & Debates
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- Created on: 12-12-18 19:56
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- Issues & Debates
- Nature VS Nurture
- Nature: genetics
- Nurture: Upbringing
- Interactionist Approach: both genetics & environment
- Free Will VS Determinism
- Hard Determinism:All of human behaviour is ultimately determined, we have no choice over our actions.
- Soft Determinism: Human behaviour is ultimately determined, but we can exercise free will if need be.
- Free Will: we have complete control over our behaviour
- There are three key types of determinism: environmental, biological & psychic
- Environmental: external triggers, like conditioning
- Biological: genetics, brain physiology & biochemistry
- Psychic: unconscious thoughts
- Levels of explanation
- Holism: human behaviour should be viewed as a whole
- Reductionism: A single explanation
- Biological reductionism
- Environmentalreductionism
- Idiographic VS Nomothetic
- Idiographic approach: when an explanation considers the individual
- Nomothetic approach: people can be regarded in groups & we can make general laws
- Nature VS Nurture
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