Year 2 Powerpoint - Week 4 and 5 Debates - Determinism, Freewill, Ideographic...Holism

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This eagerly anticipated powerpoint has been produced by leading authors Nick and Bethan specifically for the AQA Psychology Specification Year 2 Psychology in Context, ISSUE, DEBATES and OPTIONS and maps onto our VERY popular Year 2 - AQA New Specification Workbook - Issues and Debates also available for download here on TES

This powerpoint covers Week 4 and 5;

Week 4
1. Free will and determinism: hard determinism and soft determinism; biological, environmental and psychic determinism. The scientific emphasis on causal explanations.
2. Idiographic and nomothetic approaches to psychological investigation
Week 5
3. The nature-nurture debate: the relative importance of heredity and environment in determining behaviour; the interactionist approach.
4. Holism and reductionism: levels of explanation in Psychology. Biological reductionism and environmental (stimulus-response) reductionism.

Fully mapped onto the NEW Specification and SOW and has been fully crossed reference with question papers and mark schemes from Spec A, B and the New STEM. In addition includes material and terms mentioned in the SOW but not included in most 'endorsed textbooks' DOWNLOAD sit back and LIVE LIFE.

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