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most psychological approaches are

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deterministic to a certain extent because they look for patterns and causes of behavior

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if the answer was always just that behavior was just down to free will

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psychologists wouldn’t have much to study

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many approaches

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do acknowledge the existence of free will

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hard determinism

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completely rules out the idea of free will

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soft determinism is the view point that

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we choose our behavior but the choices that we made are the results of our own personality traits and intentions

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Psychodynamic: Freud argued that behavior is

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determined by unconscious forces

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Psychodynamic: behavior being determined by unconscious forces is called

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psychic determinism

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Biological: behaviors are determined by

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biological influences

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Biological: schizophrenia has been linked to

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genes and brain structures

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Cognitive: behavior is the result of

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free will and determinism

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Cognitive: the approach looks for

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patterns in how the brain processes external information and what behaviors this leads to

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Cognitive: however, it acknowledges that people use

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cognitive processes like language and reason to make decisions

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Behaviorist: Skinner claimed that behavior is determined by

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the environment and is the result of punishment and reinforcement

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Behaviorist: behavior being determined by the environment, punishment and reinforcement is called

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environmental determinism

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Behaviorist: everyone has a different history of reinforcement so

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knowing this about someone would allow you to predict their behavior

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Behaviorist: if the environment conditioning changes then

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their behavior will also change

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Humanistic: this approach falls on the

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free will side of the debate

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Humanistic: humanistic psychologists believe that

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individuals are in control of their behavior and are trying to achieve personal growth

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Psychodynamic

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determinism

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Biological

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determinism

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Cognitive

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free will and determinism

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Behaviorist

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determinism

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Humanistic

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free will