AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Furthermore, some psychologists argue that the nomothetic approach loses sight of the ‘whole person’, due to its fixation on quantitative data and statistical analysis. Furthermore, these psychologists also claim that the nomothetic approaches only provides a superficial understanding of human behaviour.

Detailed explanation-2: -It is a nomothetic approach as it views all behavior governed by the same laws of conditioning. However, it does account for individual differences and explain them in terms of difference of history of conditioning.

Detailed explanation-3: -A nomothetic approach involves studying groups of people in order to produce general laws about behaviour. One limitation is that it loses sight of the ‘whole person’, due to the extensive use of group averages.

Detailed explanation-4: -The idiographic approach is unable to produce general laws or predictions about human behaviour, and that severely limits its usefulness as a source of practical knowledge about the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders.