A.P. Psychology Perspectives.

Behavioral

Behavior is learned through stimulus response (You do this then you'll get this: reward system)

Biological

How biological factors influence behavior & mental processes
-Learning & Memory
-Genetics
-Physical Body
-Sexuality

Cognitive

ANY mental process involving thinking, perception, memory, and language

Evolutionary

How natural selection, adaption, and evolution shape behavior and mental processes
-Survival & reproduction (How to prolong generations)

Humanistic (Humanism)

Tending toward goodness, free-will, self actualization

Psychodynamic

Our behavior comes from unconscious drives; usually stemming from our early childhood.

Socio-cultural

How social interactions & cultural factors influence behavior and mental processes
-Ethnicity
-Religion
-Community
-Status

Freud

Psychodynamic

skinner, pavlov, watson

Behaviorism

Maslow

Humanistic (Humanism)

milgram

Socio-culture

Piaget

Cognitive

Broca

Biological

Buss

Evolutionary