Psychological Perspectives

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Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic

  1. Existence of unconscious/subconscious

  2. Childhood experiences determine adult personality through unconscious conflicts

  3. Always a reason for all behavior - there are no accidents

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Cognitive

  1. Humans actively seek, evaluate, transform, and transmit information

  2. How people acquire, store, process, and use information

  3. Reality for each person is different dependent upon the interpretation of things/people/events in their life

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Behavorism

  1. Most human behavior is learned through interaction with the environment

  2. Humans are passive organisms who react to environmental stimuli

  3. Modeling and imitation (learn by observing others)

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Humanism

  1. Response to psychoanalysis and behaviorism

  2. Rooted in existential thought

  3. View people as being built for growth

  4. Positive orientation toward behavior

  5. Phenomenology/phenomenological

  6. Self-concept, self-image

  7. How we meet our needs for love and acceptance and achieve self-fulfillment

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Biological

Behaviors, thoughts, and emotions impacted by biology

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Sociocultural

  1. How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures

  2. Humans strongly influenced by their social, cultural, and ethnic contexts

  3. Ethnicity, age, discrimination, and socio-economic status play roles

  4. Gender roles are key aspects of human identity - how we understand the world

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Evolutionary

  1. Descendant idea of Darwin’s natural selection

  2. Attempts to explain useful mental and psychological traits (memory, perception, language)

  3. Sees traits as functional (adaptive) outcomes of natural selection

  4. Evolution shapes the mind and behavior

  5. Related to sociobiology