Psychology Perspectives

The unconscious mind influences everything we do.

• Biological perspective
• Behavioral perspective
• Cognitive perspective
• Psychodynamic perspective

If a child is behaving poorly, it is likely because this behavior has been rewarded somehow.

• Social-cultural perspective
• Behavioral perspective
• Biological perspective
• Psychodynamic perspective

Anxiety is the result of repressed traumatic childhood experiences.

• Psychodymanic perspective
• Cognitive perspective
• Behavioral perspective
• Biological perspective

An imbalance of hormones can contribute to aggressive behavior.

• Biological perspective
• Psychodynamic perspective
• Humanistic perspective
• Cognitive perspective

Teachers will get students to study more by offering extra credit.

• Humanistic perspective
• Social-cultural perspective
• Behavioral perspective
• Cognitive perspective

Examines how our genes, hormones, and nervous system interact with the environment to influence learning, personality, memory, motivation, emotions, and other traits and abilities.

• Biological Approach

• Cognitive Approach

• Behavioral Approach

• Pyschoanalytic Approach

Analyzes how organisms learn new behavior or modify existing ones, depending on whether events in their environments reward or punish these behaviors.

• Behavioral Approach

• Psychoanalytic Approach

• Cognitive Approach

• Biological Approach

Analyzes how childhood experiences influence the development of later personality traits and psychological problems.

• Psychoanalytic Approach

• Cognitive Approach

• Biological Approach

• Behavioral Approach

It stresses the influence of unconcious fears, desires, motivation, on thoughts and behavior.

• Cognitive Approach

• Behavioral Approach

• Psychoanalytic Approach

• Biological Approach

Emphasizes that each individual has great freedom in directing his or her future, a large capacity in achieving personal growth.

• Humanistic Approach

• Cross-cultural Approach

• Behavioral Approach

• Psychoanalytic Approach