Physchology

Psychological perspectives are the ways in which psychologists approximate the study of human behavior. There are six basic perspectives that group together different aspects to classify certain human behaviors. Biological, Socio-Cultural, Humanistic, Cognitive, Behavioral, and Psychodynamic perspectives are all different perspectives. The Biological perspective argues that behavior is influenced by genetics and inheritance. Socio-Cultural explores social norms and cultures, where-as the Humanistic perspective explains behaviors by the potential fulfillment each person has. The Cognitive perspective involves memory, thinking, and problem solving. However, the Behavioral outlook explores how we learn from all of our experiences. Lastly, the Psychodynamic perspective is caused by internal conflicts and desires. Ethics in psychology include five different facets. Dual Relationship is when there is another role in addition to the counseling relationship. Confidentiality is a rule that restricts the counselor to reveal any private information from their client. Boundary issues basically involve all self-disclosure situations. And Personality Bias which if in situations the counselor’s personal beliefs interfere from helping the patient, it is highly recommended to seek another counselor.
There are roughly three categories of research methods in which we learned including Descriptive, Correlation, and Experimentation. Experimentation allows for manipulation of the factor of interest and control of other factors. Descriptive includes Case Study and Survey. Correlation represents whether or not two factors are related to one another. It does not show a cause and effect relationship. A psychological experiment includes certain variables and how those variables create a behavior. One might ask “why do we need to properly evaluate research?” If you evaluate your research you can avoid mistakes or false acquisitions. For example, a survey is a collection of data through