Technological determinism also contributes to a focus on researching only how much a person uses technology, but rarely whether someone uses the technology in the first place. An implicit linear dose–response
It is the use of the concept of environment in the explanation of different cultural elements and also the diversity of cultural groups. Two main views relatd to cultural behavior and environment are determinism and possibilism. The former, also called environmentalism, states that environment ...
The history of motivationalthoughtreflects the considerable influence of philosophers and physiologists. For example, the concept offree willas proposed byAristotleand others was a widely accepted philosophical position until it was generally rejected in favour ofdeterminism. Determinism, as the term is us...
were quarantined from theconsciousnessand lay neglected by normal curiosity. To explain this strange pattern Breuer and Freud made two assumptions. The first was based on the general scientific position ofdeterminism, which was quite prevalent in 19th-century science: although no apparent physical ...