Question | Answer |
Which approach is based upon the uniqueness of an individual? | Idiographic
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Which approach is based upon establishing laws and generalisations about people? | Nomothetic
| What term is used by humanist psychologists to refer to the focus upon individual experience? | Phenomenology
| Which broad research method is used by the idiographic approach? | Qualitative
| Give a specific example of a research method used by the idiographic approach. | Case study
| Give an example of a case study in gender. | Money and Erhardt
| Which broad research method is used by the nomothetic approach? | Quantitative
| Give a specific example of a research method used by the nomothetic approach. | Experiment
| A strength of the nomothetic approach. | Objective
| Give one reason why the idiographic approach states that general laws cannot be established. | Free will
| According to the idiographic approach, all individuals are… | Unique
| Name the type of interview most commonly used by the idiographic approach. | Unstructured
| Name a problem with idiographic methods of research such as the case study. | Low generalizability
| Which particular influences does the idiographic approach ignore? | Genetic
| How many laws does the nomothetic approach use? | Three
| The nomothetic approach focuses upon the ___ between people. | Similarities
| Give a specific example of how people can be classified into groups by the nomothetic approach. | Phobias
| Give a specific example of how people can be classified along a dimension by the nomothetic approach. | Eysenck
| Which approach is typically associated with the nomothetic approach? | Behaviourism
| Which approach is typically associated with the idiographic approach? | Humanism
| What does the nomothetic approach use statistical analysis for? | Predictions
| A strength of the nomothetic approach is that controlled variables enables repetition of studies. What is the psychological term for this? | Replication
| A strength of the nomothetic approach is that it combines biological and which other aspects? | Social
| Humanists have criticised the nomothetic approach by losing sight of the whole person. What is the psychological term for the view of a whole person? | Holistic
| A limitation of the nomothetic approach is that results have low generalizability to everyday life, known as… | Low ecological validity
| The idiographic approach is best suited to… | Description
| A term used for the way in which both nomothetic and idiographic approaches can work together. | Complementary
| A real world application of the nomothetic approach. | Bowlby’s maternal deprivation hypothesis
| A real world application of the idiographic approach. | Phobias (Little Hans case study)
| Give an example of complementarity between the idiographic and nomothetic approaches. | Memory (theories and case studies e.g. HM) |