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Humanists

believe that we choose most of our behaviors and these choices are guided by physiological, emotional, and spiritual needs.

Deterministic behaviorist

•  theorized that all behaviors are caused by past conditioning. 

Psychodynamic Perspective

The unconscious mind controls our thoughts and actions. Psychoanalysts look for impulses or memories pushed into the unconscious mind through repression.

Biopsychology Perspective

Human cognition and reactions are caused by our genes, hormones, and neurotransmitters or a combination of all.

Evolutionary

Examine human thoughts and actions in terms of natural selection.

Behavioral Perspective

• Behaviorists look at observable behaviors and at human and animal responses to different kinds of stimuli. 

  • Ex: a person's tendency to be extroverted in terms of reward and punishment.

Cognitive Perspective

Examine human thought and behavior in terms of how we interpret, process, and remember environmental events.

Social-Cultural perspective

Look at how our thoughts and behaviors vary among cultures. They emphasize the influence of culture has no the way we think and act.

Biopsychosocial Perspective

Acknowledges that human thickening and behavior results from combinations of biological, psychological, and social factors.