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Idiographic and Nomothetic - Coggle Diagram
Idiographic and Nomothetic
Idiographic A01
Focuses on recognition of uniqueness
Uses subjective experiences
Based on uniqueness of the individual
Examples - Freud's study on Little Hans, Henry Molaison Case Study.
Qualitative data
Nomothetic A01
Attempts to generalise people
Uses objective knowledge
Based on numerical data or data that can be categorised.
Examples - Asch's line study, Milgram
Quantitative data
Idiographic A03
Much more time consuming - The individual needs to be recorded and looked at for several years to gather enough information.
Strength - focuses on the individual. Humanistic and qualitative psychologists in C20th felt too much emphasis on measurement. Allport - argued only by knowing them as an individual can we predict what they will do in a situation. Focus on individuals provide us with mor complete understanding.
Limit - Less scientific, it is difficult to generalise to the whole population by focusing only on an individual. Qualitative data makes it harder to draw statistical conclusions.
Nomothetic A03
More scientific - uses the scientific method more often than idiographic. Quantitative data so is able to make statistical analyses from them.
Strength - Scientific method meaning it can be easily controlled and this reduces affects of extraneous variables and bias.
Limit - scientific method means lacks ecological validity so can't easily be applied to real life.