Idiographic and Nomothetic

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Idiographic Approach
Focuses on individual and emphasise the unique personal experience of human nature.
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Nomothetic Approach.
Concerned with establishing genral laws, based on the study of large groups of peoples.
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What approach is the Biological approach.
Nomothetic - Humans sharte similar physiologies therfore creating universal laws.
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What approach is the Behaviourists approach.
Nomothetic - Creates universal laws as all behaviour is a result of stimulus-response associations.
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What approach is the Social Learning Theory.
Nomothetic - Attempts to establish genral laws about behaviour.
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What approach is the Cognitive approach.
Nomothetic - genral laws of cognitive processing is established.
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What approach is the Humanistic approach.
Ideographic - Focuses on subjective human experience. Makes no attempt to create genral laws.
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What is the Psychodynamic Approach
Nomotheric & Ideographic - Attempts to establish general laws in relation to innate
drives. Considers the unique experiences during childhood.
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Strength of Idiographic
Focuses on the individual - Allport argued that
only knowing an individual it is therfore possible to predict what they will do.
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Limitation of Idiographic
Lack of objective evidence - Reason for growth in insufficient evidence base. findings were meaningless.evidence based approaches were found objective
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'Objective'
Tendancy on basing jusdgement and interpretations on external factors
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'Subjective'
A person's perspective or opinion, particular feelings, beliefs, and desires.
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Strength of Nomothetic
'Genrally Scientific' - controleld methods allow for replication to examine reliability of findings.
Establish scientifc discipline.
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Limiatation of Nomothetic
Superficial understanding of human behaviour. Milgram's study results failed to provide explanations therfore questioning circumstances.
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