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Case Study
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Concept
Idiographic versus Nomothetic Approaches
The split between studying general laws that hold across people and understanding the single individual in depth.
9 min
ConceptPhineas Gage and H.M.
Two brain-damaged patients, one who lost his temperament and one who lost his ability to form memories, who taught neuroscience both what a single case can prove and how easily its story gets embellished in the retelling.
9 min