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Q1. Explain to the extent to which free will and determinism are integral to the biological perspective: Determinism is the belief that our behaviour is due to external or internal factors acting upon an individual. Free will is any act that is free from any other impulses. The key assumptions of the biological perspective are that we have an innate disposition and that the environment influences our behaviour. This means both free will and determinism are integral to the biological perspective. Learning is very deterministic and this is explored in the biological perspective through neurology. The chemical processes that occur in our mind are thought cause our behaviour. Experience modifies behaviour be altering the underlying biological structures and processes (Zimbardo and Weber, 1994). Learning is the permanent change in the number of connections or the strength of connections between nerve cells. This means that what we learn and our behaviour due...

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