-The Psychodynamic Perspective: The view that behavior is influenced by the struggle between unconscious sexual or aggressive impulses and opposing forces that try to keep this threatening material out of consciousness.…
Biopsychology: The application of principles of biology toward the study of psychology. Also known as biological psychology, behavioral…
There are six principle psychological perspectives which are applied to the understanding which includes; behaviourism, social learning, psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive and developmental. These perspectives…
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection suggest that the physical environment exerts selective pressure upon adaptive characteristics, which are traits that increase the survival potential of an individual because they enable them to better adapt to their ecological niche. The adaptive traits are genetically transmitted (inherited) because the individual survives to reproduce and this is known as 'survival of the fittest', where fitness is measured by the number of genes present in the next generation.…
Psychology is the study of the brain, stemming from the greek word ‘psyche’ meaning the mind, and is made up of man different theories and perspectives. Each of these look at the human mind and find different explanations for how it works and how people behave. Some of the key psychological perspectives are;…
A perspective is basically a view that includes specific assumptions about human behaviour. Contemporary psychology covers six perspectives including Behaviourism, Social learning, cognitive, psychodynamic, humanistic and biological. There can be several different theories within an approach however they all share common assumptions.…
Natural Selection: a mechanism by which individuals that have inherited beneficial adaptations produce more offspring on average than do other individuals.…
This is an information booklet explaining the main psychological perspectives, the approaches to these perspectives and I will finally evaluate and compare two approaches.…
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.…
The study of how the neurological system affects such things as emotions, memories, and sensory experiences.…
1. Psychological sciences- the study of mind, brain and behavior. Mind refers to mental activity. Behavior is used to describe a wide variety of actions that occur in all organisms.…
Environmental psychology was established as an independent discipline in the 1950’s and 1960’s that studied the environmental features as well as human behavior in the physical and sociophysical environment. Research was focused to have a solid understanding of the environmental physical features of the environment and effect toward human behavior.…
Psychology focuses on the individual as the centre of experimental conduction rather than a group. It is a professional discipline with a large conceptual…
Psychology is a science dedicated to the study of our mind and behaviour. There are different ways of understanding the human mind and behaviour, those ways are called perspectives. A perspective is basically a point of view or a way of considering how some things are linked together and their importance.…
- The theory of Natural Selection: the process in which individuals that are better adapted to their environment survive and reproduce more successfully than less adapted individuals. Their environment selects the traits.…