1.2 Five Psychology Approaches

Describe the biological approach

physiological and biochemical explanation of behavior

Describe the behavioral approach

learned responses to predictable patterns of external stimuli

Describe the psychodynamic approach

unmet needs/unresolved conflicts from childhood determine personality

Describe the cognitive approach

studying problem solving, attention, memory and other thought processes

Describe the humanistic approach

a perspective that emphasizes looking at the whole individual and stresses concepts such as free will and self-actualization

What is Pavlov's classical conditioning?

a learning process that occurs through associations between an environmental stimulus and a naturally occurring stimulus

What is Skinner's Operant Conditioning?

method of learning that takes place through rewarding and punishing certain behaviors

Which psychologist is most closely associated with the hierarchy of needs and self-actualization?

Abraham Maslow

B.F. Skinner

operant conditioning

Sigmund Freud

psychodynamic theory

William James

functionalism

Ivan Pavlov

classical conditioning

Abraham Maslow

hierarchy of needs