7 Perspectives in Psychology

The unconscious mind influences everything we do. Your childhood has an impact on how you think and behave today.

• Biological perspective

• Behavioral perspective

• Cognitive perspective

• Psychodynamic perspective

An imbalance of hormones can contribute to aggressive behavior.

• Biological perspective

• Psychodynamic perspective

• Humanistic perspective

• Socio-cultural perspective

Our behavior is a direct result of how we feel about ourselves.

• Humanistic perspective
• Psychodynamic perspective
• Behavioral perspective
• Social-cultural perspective

Future behavior is influenced by memory and analysis of past experience.

• Cognitive
• Sociocultural
• Humanistic
• Neurobiological

Which perspective emphasizes the idea that the people and cultural groups around us are important in understanding human behavior?

• Evolutionary

• Sociocultural

• Behavioral

• Biochemical

Perception, attention, thinking, language, memory

• Behavioral perspective
• Cognitive perspective
• Humanistic perspective
• Psychodynamic perspective

Behavior reflects the influence of physical and psychological traits that helped ancestors survive/reproduce over the course of history.

• Evolutionary

• Biological

• Cognitive

• Social-Cultural

The Smiths train their dog not to leave the yard by using an invisible fence that delivers low level shocks if the dog passes it.

• behavioral

• humanistic

• psychodynamic

• biological

Alan acts out in class because his peers reinforce the behavior by laughing at his jokes.

• socio-cultural

• evolutionary

• cognitive

• biological

8. Emma is afraid of snakes because this fear protected her ancestors from death by snake bite.

• evolutionary
• behavioral
• socio-cultural
• psychodynamic