Determinism v's Free will PLAN

• Determinism

-behaviour shaped/ controlled by external forces

-pavlov (classical conditioning)

• The bahviourist approach

-all events caused 

-people product of the environment 

-enviromental determinism 

-skinner; free will an illusion 

-phobia conditioned

-tokens (forensic psychology)

-''perfect society'' 

• Evidence 

-punishment and rewards 

-bandura; surely behaviour would change all the time?

-humans determined by long term goals 

• psychodynamic approach

-psychic determinsim; motivated by unconscious 

-libido

-no behaviour just happens

mortley et al; freudian slips

-developed from people with mental disorder 

• Biological approach

-under the control of biological factors 

-role of genetics; genetic determinsm 

-high concordance rate in genetically similar…