IDIOGRAPHIC AND NOMOTHETIC Flashcards
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what is the idiographic approach
attempts to describe nature of the individual, originally derived from greek meaning ‘private’
idiographic - people are studied as… each with their own…
unique entities each with their own subjective experiences, motivations and values
what methods idiographic associated with
qualitative data - case studies, unstructured interviews, self-report measures
one of central aims of idiographic approach
to describe the richness of human experience and gain insight into the person’s unique way of viewing the world
main aim of nomothetic approach
to produce general laws of human behaviour which provide a benchmark against which people can be compared, classified and measured
what methods nomothetic associated with
‘scientific’ - experiments, studying large numbers of people to see if behaviour is similar
research ex of idiographic
maslow and rogers
the nomothetic approach tends to be a feature of those approaches that are…
reductionist, determinist and employ scientific methods of investigation
