Review of Humanism, Psychoanalysis, and Behaviorism

Which approach of Psychology is about focusing on how your unconscious mind and past, including your childhood, affect your thoughts and feelings today?

• Psychoanalysis

• Humanism

• Behaviorism

Which approach of Psychology focuses on fulfilling your social and emotional needs to reach self-actualization?

• Psychoanalysis

• Humanism

• Behaviorism

Based on this picture, what is Freud, founder of psychoanalysis, trying to indicate about our motives and drives?

• We have very little happening below our conscious level

• Most of our personality is open and easy to access

• Much of what drives us is unconscious and hard to access

Which approach of psychology began by focusing solely on external, observable actions that we can see

• Psychoanalysis

• Humanism

• Behaviorism

Herbie believes that human behavior is generated in our unconscious minds and is the result of unresolved conflicts and desires, especially rooted in childhood experience.  More than likely Herbie uses which approach? 

• Psychoanalysis

• Humanism

• Behaviorism

Frustrated over her life, Sherbie has been seeing a psychologist who is helping her to understand that through personal growth she can take control of her life.  Her psychologist is most likely a

• Psychoanalyst

• Humanist

• Behaviorist

Zerbie would like to have a dog, but a bad experience when they were younger makes it hard to do that. Zerbie's psychologist helps them by associating the dog with something they love. Overtime, Zerbie becomes less afraid of dogs, and finally is able to get a pet dog! What type of approach does this show?

• Psychoanalysis

• Humanism

• Behaviorism

Unlike a psychoanalyst, a behaviorist will not consider

• The external, observable behaviors demonstrated

• The internal motivations for behavior

• Whether a person's behavior should be changed or kept