Psych - Unit 1 - Psychology Approaches

Focuses on objective, observable, environmental influences on behavior

• Behaviorism

• Evolutionary Psychology

• Biological Psychology

• Humanistic Psychology

Focuses on self-concept, free will, and human nature as positive forces

• Behaviorism

• Evolutionary Psychology

• Biological Psychology

• Humanistic Psychology

Focuses on mental processes like conscious thought, perception, memory and learning

• Cognitive Psychology

• Evolutionary Psychology

• Biological Psychology

• Humanistic Psychology

Focuses on the effects environment & cultural have on behavior

• Cognitive Psychology

• Evolutionary Psychology

• Biological Psychology

• Sociocultural Psychology

Focuses on natural selection, adaptation, and evolution of behavior patterns

• Cognitive Psychology

• Evolutionary Psychology

• Biological Psychology

• Sociocultural Psychology

Focus on genetics and physiological processes in the brain and nervous system

• Cognitive Psychology

• Evolutionary Psychology

• Biological Psychology

• Sociocultural Psychology

Focuses on how unconscious drives and conflicts influence behavior

• Cognitive Psychology

• Psychodynamic Psychology

• Biological Psychology

• Sociocultural Psychology

Psychology

• The science of numbers

• The science of behavior and mental processes.

• The study of living organisms

• The science of human interaction

The principle that, among the range of inherited trait variations, those contributing to reproduction and survival will most likely be passed on to succeeding generations

• Mystical choices

• Natural selection

• Abnormal Psychology

• Survival of the tightest

Psychodynamic Psychologist who theorized that our behavior is heavily influenced by childhood experiences and unconscious forces

• Roger Sperry

• BF Skinner

• Sigmund Freud

• Jean Piaget