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    Psychological perspectives of smoking This essay will consider how each of the 5 psychological perspectives explain smoking. I will cover the psychodynamic‚ the behaviouristic‚ the biological‚ the cognitive and the humanistic approach. Psychodynamic approach The psychodynamic approach views behaviour in terms of past childhood experiences‚ and the influence of unconscious processes. There are five psychosexual stages in Freud’s theory‚ the first being the oral stage during which the infant

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    An overview of six psychological perspectives Psychodynamic perspective Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) developed a theory of the human mind that emphasised the interaction of biological drives with the social environment. Freud’s theory emphasises the power of early experience to influence the adult personality. Freud’s theories are called Psychodynamic theories. Psychodynamic refers to the broad theoretical model for explaining mental functioning. ‘Psycho’ means mind or spirit and ‘dynamic’ means

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    understand how human beings behave and think‚ psychologists introduced different psychological perspectives which try to explain and emphasizes different aspects of human behavior. These different psychological perspectives helped psychologists to deeper understand how people behave and think in a given situation. This paper’s primary goal is to explain and thoroughly discuss three of the seven modern psychological perspectives and shows how it affects human

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    progress in a lethargic & unprepared manner. b. Law of Exercise The second law of learning is the ‘Law of Exercise’‚ which means that drill or practice helps in increasing efficiency and durability of learning and according to Throndike’s S-R Bond Theory‚ the connections are strengthened with trail or practice and the connections are weakened when trial or practice is discontinued. The ‘law of exercise’‚ therefore‚ is also understood as the ‘law of use and disuse’ in which case connections or bonds

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    Psychological Theory Psych525 Psychological Theory This paper examines how a person’s cultural ethnocentric perspective causes them to react to a person from another culture based on the behavior/social cognitive theory. For the purposes of description‚ this presentation will explore both Irish and Japanese ethnocentric perspectives and how they relate to one another using the behavior/social cognitive theory. Ethnocentricity Before continuing on to describe Irish and Japanese cultural interaction

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    from the contributions of all its founders. Some new ideas or perspectives have been added too. Psychology perspectives refer to how psychology approaches or looks at different topics within its field. Modern psychology looks at the various issues relating to human behavior from five perspectives. These five major perspectives discussed by Teachers Training Program are: 1. The Biological Perspectives. 2. The Behavioral Perspectives.

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    PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES M2 I am going to look at how the humanistic and the biological approaches are used in health and social care practices and how they are applied to service provision‚ comparing the similarities and differences for each approach. The biological approach is being used in health care a lot more now we are more aware and knowledgeable on the brain and the nervous system. Scientists can now look at the brain through MRI and PET scans to see the effects of brain damage‚ disease

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    Applied Psychological Perspectives The psychodynamic approach was associated with a man called Sigmund Freud‚ this man believed that the brain was split into 3 parts‚ just like an ice-burg. At the tip of the ice burg where everybody can see‚ is the “Conscious” part of the brain‚ this holds thoughts and perceptions. The “Pre Conscious” level is where memories‚ feelings and past experiences are locked up in our mind but often let out‚ this holds memories and easily accessed knowledge. The

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    Social/Cultural Psychology Throughout the textbook‚ we have learned and discussed the four different perspectives of psychological science: Biological Psychology‚ Behavioral Psychology‚ Cognitive Psychology‚ and Social/Cultural Psychology. Carole Wade‚ Carol Tarvis‚ and Maryanne Garry explain in our textbook‚ Psychology (2014)‚ that through these four perspectives‚ one can see the different methods and theories of learning about how and why individuals act and think the way they do and how they are affected

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    Psychological Perspectives for Aggression Psychology is composed of a lot of different branches such as biological psychology‚ cognitive psychology‚ evolutionary psychology‚ social-cultural psychology‚ etc and they all have different justifications pertaining to behavior. Biologically speaking‚ aggression can be inherited by genes of past generations. If aggression was a quality of the ancestors or relatives of a person then it is likely that the person will also be aggressive. Additionally‚ if

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