What is free will? The notion that humans can make choices and are not determined by internal and external forces like biological and environmental factors.
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What is hard determinism? It implies free will is not possible as out behaviour is always caused by internal or external events beyond our control.
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What is biological determinism? The belief that behaviour is caused by biological influences that we cannot control. E.g. genetic, hormonal and evolutionary.
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What is psychic determinism? The belief that behaviour is caused by unconscious conflicts that we cannot control.
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Determinism is consistent with the aims of science as human behaviour is orderly and obeys laws. It has also lead to development of treatments, therapies and behavioural interventions. It doesn't make sense to choose to have mental illness.
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Freewill has face validity, it makes cognitive sense. Also research suggests people with an internal locus of control tend to be more healthy. This suggests even if we think we have free will, it has a positive impact on mind and behaviour.
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A compromise interactionist position is the best approach such as the SLT that takes a soft determinist approach.
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What is reductionism? The belief that human behaviour is best explained by breaking it down into smaller constituent parts.
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Middle level at which there are psychological explanations of behaviour and the lower level which looks at biological explanations of how hormones and genes affect our behaviour.
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What is environmental determinism? The attempt to explain all behaviour in terms of stimulus response links that have been learned through experience (the behaviourist approach).
