Approaches / Perspectives

a psychological perspective emphasizing the importance of social interaction, social learning, and a cultural perspective

• reader based view

• behavioral view

• sociocultural view

• interactive view

controversy in which it is debated whether genetics or environment is responsible for behavior

• empirical approach

• sociocultural view

• confirmation bias

• nature vs. nurture

the scientific study of behavior and mental processes

• psychiatry

• behaviorism

• structuralism

• psychology

A relatively new specialty in psychology that sees behavior and mental processes in terms of their genetic adaptations for survival and reproduction.

• gestalt psychology

• functionalism

• behaviorism

• evolutionary psychology

A study conducted via careful observations and scientifically based research.

• logical approach

• introspection

• normative approach

• empirical approach

The psychological perspective that searches for the causes of behavior in the functioning of genes, the brain and nervous system, and the endocrine (hormone) system.

• Biological Perspective

• Cognitive Perspective

• Trait View

• Behaviorism

an approach to psychology that has sought to make it an objective science focused only on observable behavior- to the exclusion of mental processes; fundamental belief is that all behavior is learned

• behaviorism

• humanistic approach / humanism

• confirmation bias

• psychiatry

a clinical viewpoint emphasizing the understanding of mental disorders in terms of unconscious needs, desires, memories, and conflicts

• sociocultural view

• psychodynamic view

• evolutionary psychology

• confirmation bias

the tendency to attend to evidence that complements and confirms our beliefs or expectations, while ignoring evidence that does not

• framing bias

• hindsight bias

• negativity bias

• confirmation bias

A clinical viewpoint emphasizing human ability, growth, potential, and free will.

• functionalism

• structuralism

• sociocultural view

• humanistic approach / humanism