Biological Level of Analysis: -Outlining the principles that define the BLA: What will be in this essay: 1. State what you will be talking about. 2. Define the BLA. 3. State the principles of BLA: -Behavior has physiological bases. -Behavior can be inherited -Behavior has evolutionary processes. -Animal studies give an insight into human behavior. 4. Purpose of the BLA 5. Bi-directional relationship in human behavior. 6. Reductionist approach. The writing part:
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Biological & Humanistic Approaches to Personality Biological & Humanistic Approaches to Personality When breaking down the differences with how Abraham Maslow used personality and development that consisted of theories based solely on the personality part of human needs. His hierarchy of needs pyramid shows the influences of human needs to the formation of unique individual personality. There are factors of biological needs that influence the formation of the way the
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Compare and contrast the Psychodynamic and Humanistic approaches to understanding personality. People engage in topics of personality on a daily basis. It is how we engage with others‚ behave towards them and how we assert judgement. Personality theorists attempt to explain these connections through theory‚ observation and testing. Particular influential theories of personality are psychodynamic and humanistic theory. I will seek to analyse the prime divergences that separate these approaches
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What is Motivation? What is Motivation? According to the text‚ motivation is defined in three components; Biological‚ Learned‚ and Cognitive. Also‚ motivation is a set of influences that activate‚ direct and maintain behavior‚ commonly toward a certain goal. Motivation is the drive that makes us do things: this is a result of our individual needs being satisfied so that we have the inspiration to complete the mission. These desires vary from person to person as everybody has their needs to motivate
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Behaviourist Theory (10 marks) First of all‚ behaviourists are psychologists that believe that behaviours are learnt instead of them being natural. Behaviourist theory believes that people learn to be phobic rather than are born phobic. Reason being‚ many people link their fear of an object or situation to something bad they have experienced. For instance‚ if someone is scared of needles‚ it may have been because they had a bad experience with it as a child‚ thus causing a phobia. This I known
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There are 3 elements in the behaviourist perspective‚ which are classical conditioning‚ operant conditioning and the social learning theory. The main assumptions made by the behaviourists are • That scientific methods should be used to study only behaviour that is observable • The environment (i.e. the people or events in it) causes our behaviour • The two ways in which we learn from the environment are through classical and operant conditioning. The classical conditioning theory was developed
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Biological and Psychological Models of Abnormality Introduction The many different models used to explain the nature and treatment of mental illness compound the problems of defining and classifying abnormal behaviour. Five major schools of thought are summarised below. The biological (medical) model The medical of abnormality model has dominated the psychiatric profession since the last century . The underlying assumption of this model is that mental illnesses resemble physical
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’Meta-analyses have established that different psychotherapies have different outcomes. Cognitive-behavioural therapies are significantly more effective than psychodynamic therapies‚ and their superiority increases when long-term follow-up is assessed. Hypnosis enhances the efficacy of both psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioural psychotherapy’. (Kirsch‚ 1996) Clinical Hypnosis is natural and safe. Hypnosis is essentially a cognitive (thought) process. It is a natural process which we all have engaged in‚ many
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This report will apply the behaviourist approach to a case study and demonstrate an understanding of the behaviourist approach. To apply the approach to Evan – a 17 year old – who spends most of his time playing video games in his room‚ the report will analyse and explain Evan’s behaviour and back it up with evidence. Evan’s parents have noticed a drastic change in Evan’s behaviour since playing video games. Evan has become irritable and even aggressive. He has also become withdrawn from his friends
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Assessing Yourself on the Big Five Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) Here are a number of personality traits that may or may not apply to you. Please write a number next to each statement to indicate the extent to which you agree or disagree with that statement. You should rate the extent to which the pair of traits applies to you‚ even if one characteristic applies more strongly than the other. 1 = Disagree strongly 2 = Disagree moderately 3 = Disagree a little 4 = Neither agree nor disagree
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