Free Will vs Determinism

What is biological determinism?

all human behaviour is innate and determined by genes

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what is a casual explanation?

wants to discover if x causes y or if iv changes dv

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what is determinism?

free will is an illusion and behaviour is governed by internal and external factors which we have no control over

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what is environmental determinism?

behaviours caused by forces outside individual, behaviour is caused by previous experience learnt through cc/oc

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what is free will?

ppl have a choice in how they have a behave

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what is psychic determinism?

claims that human behaviour is result of childhood experiences and innate drive

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what is hard determinism?

view that external factors shape our behaviour

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what is soft determinism?

behaviour is constructed by environmental or biological make up, but only to a certain extent

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what psychologist said on HD/SD?

Heather said while behaviour is predictable, you can have free will

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what is an example of biological determinism?
what is an example of ED?
what is an example of PD?
(include psychologists)

-Hillet et al said a particular gene makes someone more intelligent then another
-Bandura, children w violent parents more likely to be violent due to observational learning
-ID, EGO, SUPEREGO

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name the evacuation of this?

-the humanistic approach against it, oe twins studies show although their is a 80% similarity in intelligence, the other 20% can be made by free will
-freud argues unconscious thoughts predicts-

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continuing w previous card

-behaviour and it can be explored through psychoanalysis
-researchers+legal experts believe determinism acts as an excuse for behaviour ie Mobley- a criminal who though he "was born to kill"

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counting w previous card

+some behaviour is BD, Libet et al found motor regions become active before a person registers conscious awareness ie moving finger

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what is explained by the scientific approach and determinism and what example do they use?

they want to find a causal rs ie Bandura's agg, non agg and no model to show difference and comparisons

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name the evaluation of this?

-no such thing as HD ie Hilborn w chaos theory- said small cha get can produce major changes
-extraneous variables can impact a casual rs
-Baumeister- psychological causality is arguably never deterministic as statistical tests show probability or smthn

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what is the critical thinking behind this?

have to evaluate all options to find bets fit approach in psychology

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