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id·i·o·graph·ic

 (ĭd′ē-ō-grăf′ĭk)
adj.
Relating to or concerned with discrete or unique facts or events: History is an idiographic discipline, studying events that cannot be repeated.
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idiographic

(ˌɪdɪəʊˈɡræfɪk)
adj
(Psychology) psychol of or relating to the study of individuals. Compare nomothetic
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id•i•o•graph•ic

(ˌɪd i əˈgræf ɪk)

adj.
of or involving the study or explication of individual cases or events.
[1905–10]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.idiographic - relating to or involving the study of individuals
psychological science, psychology - the science of mental life
nomothetic - relating to or involving the search for abstract universal principles
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The participants' voices were recorded, followed by interview transcription and idiographic coding.
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FAP is a contextual-behavioral therapy approach in which the therapist creates an idiographic case conceptualization of the client's in-session clinically relevant behaviors (CRBs) as functional classes, defined in terms of problematic CRBs (CRBls) and improvements in these repertoires (CRB2s).
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Therefore, the paper is conceived as an idiographic case study.
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The idiographic assessment of outcomes, which uses individualized measures that involve clients in the definition of person-specific items, is a promising approach.
Individualized Career Counseling Outcome Assessment: A Case Study Using the Personal Questionnaire
Nomothetic and idiographic. (n.d.).In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
A Science-Based Practitioner Model
(4) Thus, the longue duree is not itself eternal--it has a beginning and an end--and this conceptualization avoids the problem of ahistorical generalization in nomothetic social science as well as the ephemeral quality of the event privileged by traditional idiographic history.
Lecciones de la Longue Duree: El legado de Fernand Braudel
Nomothetic knowledge is based on objective phenomena, whereas idiographic knowledge is that describing subjective phenomena.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE HUMAN BIOFIELD: NEW OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
Stage 2: Conducting an idiographic level of analysis, concerning the person-in-context.
Whose choice? Exploring multiple perspectives on music therapy access under the National Disability Insurance Scheme
Therefore, we can say that: what we hold, IS the concept, NOT idiographic index, especially the index is hysteretic.
Critical Care Medicine 2017: Bigger Picture, Better Future
Smith (2004) elaborated on the use IPA and articulates its three characteristics; it is idiographic, inductive and interrogative.
Constructing quality childcare: perspectives of quality and their connection to belonging, being and becoming
The 'idiographic problem' (Erwin, 1999), shared by several therapies, assumes particular relevance when considering the existential paradigm: 'If, from an existential standpoint, it is simply not possible to generalise from one individual to another, then what possible value can conducting--or engaging with--empirical research have?' (Cooper, 2004: p 6).
Can existential-phenomenological theory and epistemology ever be congruent with empirical research and systematizations?

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