This assignment is an addition to my P2 and P3 which was a PowerPoint and I discussion I took part in about psychological perspectives. Throughout this assignment I am going to compare and discuss two psychological approaches.…
Within psychology, several perspectives are used to describe, predict, and explain human behavior. Describe three major psychological perspectives and name at least one leading theorist for each.…
Psychology is the scientific explanation into how the mind works and how and why we behave the way we do.…
Psychology is the focus on different subjects such as the human development, social behaviour and cognitive processes. There are different approaches that have been developed in order to explain the psychology. These perspective or approaches include the behaviourist, social learning, psychodynamic, humanistic, and cognitive and the biological perspectives. These perspectives focus on trying to explain human development by focusing on how people learn and develop. Also the perspectives explain how an individual’s behaviour can be influenced by ones childhood (notes).…
Wayne Dyer once said, “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” The different perspectives in psychology help psychologists understand behavior and mental processes because there is no correct point of view; it is all assumptions and opinions. Although some perspectives seem “more right” in comparison to others, they all have unique attributes, assumptions and beliefs that help psychologists understand human behavior. The contemporary psychological perspectives include: the biological view, developmental view, cognitive view, psychodynamic view, humanistic view, behavioral view, sociocultural view, evolutionary view and trait view. Each perspective has strengths and weaknesses, but all nine of views contributed…
Psychology is the process of understanding ones mental processes such as how and why one thinks, feels, and behaves the way they do. Psychology is the process by which the scientific method is used to better understand and test these processes (Allport, 1985). Psychology was established as a means to blends these two differing schools of thought into one. Psychology quickly separated into different schools of thought as a means to explain the human mind and its behaviors. In this paper we will discuss in more depth about a few of them such as structuralism, functionalism, psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and humanism (Allport, 1985).…
In psychology there are six modern psychological perspectives. These perspectives are behavioral, psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive, sociocultural, and biological. Each perspective has its own unique way of explaining the human behavior. I believe to truly explain the complex mental processes and behavior, each perspective must be examined, not limited to just one. The following is my explanation and comparisons between two of these perspectives: psychodynamic and behavioral.…
In psychology there are several perspectives that are used to describe, predict, and explain human behavior. The three major psychological perspectives are functionalism, structuralism, and behaviorism. Functionalism stressed the importance of how behavior functions to allow people and animals to adapt to their environments. They included research that involved direct observation of living creatures in their natural settings. They also studied how psychology could be applied to places such as education, child rearing, and working environment. A leading theorist of functionalism was William James. His ideas became the basis for functionalism. Structuralism was the belief that en our most complex conscious experiences could be broken down into elemental structures. A leading theorist of structuralism was Edward B. Titchener. Titchener established a 26 room psychology laboratory. He is well known for his procedure called introspection. Behaviorism is the study of behavior is acquired or modified by environmental causes. A leading theorist of Behaviorism…
These two assumptions still have relevance today and early psychologists who studied this perspective’s believed that the study of conscious thoughts would be the key to understanding the mind. In addition, their approaches to the study of the mind were based on systematic and rigorous observation. This created a foundation for modern psychological experimentation. Structuralism was under heavy scrutiny and new approaches to studying the mind were considered. Functionalism was the alternative founded in the 19th century. This was built on structuralisms concern over the function of the mind (Stangor and Walinga,…
There are five general perspectives on human behavior, learning, biological, sociocultural, cognitive, and psychodynamic influences. To understand them I will summarize each and examine them from a relationship standpoint and I will use my grandparent’s relationship to compare them.…
Each perspective or approach has its strengths and weaknesses, and brings something different to our understanding of human behavior. Each one of these perspectives searches for answers about behavior through different techniques and through looking for answers to different kinds of questions. Due to the different approaches, each perspective forms its own assumptions and explanations. The following paragraphs will give a briefing of the different psychology approaches.…
Psychology encompasses a vast range of different thoughts, theories, and biological foundations on behavior of why people act the way they do. Once a part of philosophy, psychology has developed into several schools of thought that describe the theories some of these individuals use to approach what they are observing from different people and their actions. Some of these theories do have conflictions from others, but all have a good amount of validity to their theories. Many things contribute to the biological well being of a person and those things can determine what kind of behavior the person will display.…
The five concepts that I feel I use in my everyday life and that are very important in the process of bettering myself would have to be; punishment, observational learning, positive reinforcement, goal setting, and communication. Those are the main things that I found in the chapters that I use in my everyday life, work, school, sports etc.…
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Most of the things we know about human´s behaviour has come out because of the different psychological theories. We may question why there are so many different psychological perspectives, which one is right and which one is wrong. Most Psychologists nowadays would say that none of the theories are correct. However, in the early days, the Psychologists would agree that all the theories were the only truly scientific one.…