idiographic and nomothetic
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- idiographic and nomothetic approaches
- idiographic: approach which focuses on the individual - considered as a unique case with their own subjective experiences, values and motivations.
- produces qualitative data (case studies, unstructured interviews)
- use of these methods reflects aims of idiographic research - to describe richness of human experience and gain insight into the persons unique way of viewing the world.
- Humanistic Psychology - Rogers and Maslow concerned with the unique experience of the individual rather than producing general laws for behaviour.
- psychodynamic psychology - Freud used detailed case studies (little Hans) as a way of understanding behaviour.
- produces qualitative data (case studies, unstructured interviews)
- nomothetic approach: formulate general laws of human behaviour and then provide a standard against which people behaviour can be measured and compared in order to predict and control it.
- produces quantitative data (experiments).
- studying large numbers of people allow norms to be established
- behaviourists
- biological psychologists - brain scans to make generalisations about localisation of function
- cognitive psychology - Miller - Formulates general principles of memory processing.
- produces quantitative data (experiments).
- idiographic: approach which focuses on the individual - considered as a unique case with their own subjective experiences, values and motivations.
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