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Elena and her colleague are debating different approaches in psychology. Elena argues, 'The humanistic approach is wonderful because it treats individuals as active agents with free will who can achieve their full potential.' Her colleague counters, 'But it's impossible to design a rigorous experiment to test those subjective concepts.'

With reference to this conversation, explain one strength and one limitation of the humanistic approach.

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Practise AQA A Level Psychology Approaches in Psychology with exam-style questions for A Level Psychology. 248 questions covering Learning approaches, Cognitive approach, Biological approach, Psychodynamic approach (A-level only), Humanistic Psychology (A-level only), and Comparison of approaches (A-level only), matched to the AQA A Level Psychology (7182) specification and written in Paper 1, Paper 2 and Paper 3 style. Every question includes a full worked solution and mark scheme, so you can see where marks are awarded rather than just whether you got the answer right.

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