Foundations Of Behavior: Understanding Psychology

Foundations of Behavior
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Abstract
This paper is to explore various perspectives of psychology. To better understand psychology today you need to be able to understand psychology from the beginning. This paper will look at three different aspects of psychology.
Foundations of Behavior
There are several aspects of psychology that if researched can help you understand psychology today. The first aspect of psychology that we will look at is behaviorism. The second aspect of psychology that we will look at is humanistic perspective. The third aspect of psychology that we will look at is the psychodynamic perspective. We will also look at the differences of three of the aspects of psychology. If researched from the origins it can help us understand psychology of today.
Behaviorism is the study of behavior as it relates to psychology. It proposes that learning can result from consequences from rewards or punishments that can be associated with specific behaviors. An example of behaviorism is training a dog with a bell to know when it is time to eat. If you start by ringing a bell every time right before you feed the dog, the dog will begin to learn that the bell is associated with feeding. By doing this the dog has learned that by ringing the bell that he is about to be fed. This can be associated today in many ways. We know that if we go to work every day that at the end of the work period we will be paid. We also know that every day at a certain time we get a lunch break to eat and our bodies will naturally get use to eating at a certain time and will be anticipating