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FREE WILL & DETERMINSIM - Coggle Diagram

- - - - environmental determinism: the idea that behaviour is caused by features of the environment (e.g reward and punishment) that we cannot control
      - Psychic determinism: the belief that behaviour is caused by unconscious psychodynamic conflicts that we cannot control
      - biological determinism: the belief that all human behaviour is caused by biological influences (genetic, hormonal, evolutionary) that we cannot control
- - - - positive implication for society if we have a belief in free will as less people diagnosed with mental health problems, less strain on health services e.g demand for therapists/counselling and more people in work so helps the economy
  - - - counterpoint: Liberts findings show that the brain is involved in decision making but just because the action comes before the conscious awareness of the decision to act, doesn't mean that there was no decision to act (just took time to reach the consciouness). This suggests this evidence is not appropriate as a challenge to free will.
  - - - However, there are instances where the law can accommodate the problem of hard determinism such as using the law of diminished responsibility e.g a man how had been given a 9 year sentence for killing a man had it cut by a year after the judge learned that the man had the aggressive-prone variant of MAOA gene.