Idiographic and Nomothetic

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Across
  1. 3. The study of structures of consciousness and is experienced from a first person point of view through lived experiences
  2. 5. A perspective that describes the different forces, most of which are unconscious that operate on the mind and direct human behaviour and experience
  3. 7. A perspective that emphasises the importance of physical processes such as genetic inheritance
  4. 9. Data that can be counted and usually given as numbers
  5. 10. Laws Rules of human behaviour that provide a benchmark which people can be compared, classified and measured against
  6. 13. The view that an individuals behaviour is shaped or controlled by internal or external forces rather than individuals will to do something
  7. 14. report A method of collecting data commonly used in the idiographic approach that produces qualitative data
  8. 15. A way of explaining behaviour in terms of what is observable and in terms of learning
  9. 17. A limitation of the idiographic approach that leads to bias in the results
  10. 18. An approach focussed on how our mental processes affect behaviour
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  1. 1. A way of collecting data commonly used in the nomothetic approach that produces scientific data
  2. 2. An approach to understanding behaviour that emphasises the importance of subjective experience and each persons capacity for self determination
  3. 4. study An in-depth investigation, description and analysis of a single individual, group, institution or event which is an idiographic method of collecting data
  4. 6. An approach that attempts to study human behaviour through the development of general principles and universal laws
  5. 8. An approach to research that focuses more on the individual case as means of understanding behaviour
  6. 9. Data that is expressed in words and non numerical
  7. 11. Molaison A case study into anterograde amnesia that demonstrated the values of idiographic research
  8. 12. A belief of many approaches that use nomothetic methods that human behaviour is better understood by breaking it down into smaller constituent parts
  9. 14. Experiments An aspect of the nomothetic approach that enables cause and effect relationships and increases the scientific credibility of psychology
  10. 16. A strength of the nomothetic approach that minimises the presence of researcher bias