Terminology
| Aetiology | the study of the cause of behaviour etc |
| Determinism | behaviour is controlled by internal or external forces |
| Free will | people respond actively to the events around them and control own behaviour |
| Holism | an emphasis on the whole person rather than their constituent parts |
| Idiographic | concerned with the individual rather than general laws of behaviour |
| Mechanistic | to treat humans as machines |
| Nature | factors caused by inherited/genetic factors |
| Nomothetic | concerned with general patterns of behaviour, shared by groups, rather than individual behaviour |
| Nurture | factors caused by environmental influences |
| Reductionism | reducing complex human behaviours to simple explanations based on the sciences |
Useful link phrases
- So we can see that
- This would imply
- One consequence would be
- One advantage of this is
- An alternative explanation could be
- Therefore
- This is supported by
- This is challenged by
- Not everybody reacts the same way, for example
- There may be cultural variations
- This has been applied to (give situation)
- This suggests that
