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Free will
Each individual has the power to make choices about their own behaviour.
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Determinism
Behaviour is controlled by external or internal factors acting upon the individual
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Soft determinism
A version of determinism that allows for some element of free will.
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Hard determinism
The view that all behaviour can be predicted and there is no free will.
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Biological determinism
The idea that human characteristics, are determined by hereditary factors passed from parent to offspring.
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Environmental determinism
The view that behaviour is determined or caused by forces outside the individual.
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Psychic determinism
The idea that human behaviour is the result of childhood experiences and innate drives.
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Holism
Perceiving the whole experience rather than the individual features and/or the relations between them.
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reductionism
An approach that breaks complex phenomena into more simple components allowing for a simpler level of explanation
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Biological reductionism
A reduction of behaviour to a physical level and explain it in terms of neurons, neurotransmitters, hormones, brain structure, etc.
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Environmental reductionism
A reduction of behaviour to a stimulus-response associations and that complex behaviours are a series of S-R chains
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Nomothetic
Seeks to make general laws about behaviour based on the study of groups and the use of quantitative methods.
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Idiographic
focuses on individuals and emphasises uniqueness, favours qualitative methods in research.
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