Contemporary Perspectives In Psychology

Studies the influence of biology on behavior:

• Biological Perspective

• Learning Perspective

• Humanistic Perpsective

• Operant Conditioning

Emphasizes the role thoughts play in determining behavior, how people remember, and how we use information.

• Learning Perspective

• Psychoanalysis Perspective

• Cognitive Perspective

• Humanistic Perspective

Stresses human capacity for self-fulfillment, importance of consciousness, self-awareness, and capacity to make choices.

• Humanistic Perspective

• Cognitive Perspective

• Operant Conditioning

• Learning Perspective

Influence of unconscious forces on human behavior

• Learning Perspective

• Cognitive Perspective

• Psychoanalysis Perspective

• Humanistic Perspective

Learning is essential factor in observing, describing, explaining, predicting, and controlling behavior.

• Learning Perspective

• Humanistic Perspective

• Cognitive Perspective

• Operant Conditioning

Addresses issues of ethnicity, gender, culture, and SES. Examine gender (differences b/t men and women)

• Learning Perspective

• Cognitive Perspective

• Humanistic Perspective

• Sociocultural Perspective

One of the most famous Humanistic Perspective Psychologists.

• Abraham Maslow

• BF Skinner

• William James

• Wilhelm Wundt

Father of Functionalism

• William James

• Wilhelm Wundt

• BF Skinner

• Sigmund Freud

Father of Structuralism

• William James

• Wilhelm Wundt

• Carl Rogers

• Carl Jung

Operant Conditioning

• Freud

• James

• Skinner

• Pavlov