Q. Natali . What is the difference between nomothetic and idiographic approaches to personality? (Solved)
1. nomothetic approaches seek to find generalized laws of behaviour that help us classify people in terms of their similarities, while idiographic approaches seek to find what makes people unique
2. nomothetic approaches view only the differences between people, while ideographic approaches seek to find similarities
3. ideographic approaches try to categorize people, while nomothetic approaches don’t
4. None of them
- a. nomothetic approaches seek to find generalized laws of behaviour that help us classify people in terms of their similarities, while idiographic approaches seek to find what makes people unique