Psychology - Approaches
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- Created on: 14-12-15 16:23
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- Approaches
- Learning/ Behaviourist
- Key beliefs
- all behaviour is learned
- tabula rasa
- learning is the same amongst all species
- John Watson
- Classical conditioning
- Pavlov's dog
- Operant conditioning
- Skinner box
- Social learning theory
- Bobo Doll study
- Strengths
- scientific
- explanatory power
- Weaknesses
- reductionist
- deterministic
- Key beliefs
- Biological
- key beliefs
- all behaviour has a biological basis
- theory of evolution
- survival of the fittest
- natural selection
- sexual selection
- Genes
- genotypes
- phenotypes
- neurochemistry
- low serotonin
- depression
- OCD
- high dopamine
- Schizophrenia
- low serotonin
- Strengths
- contribution to society
- brain damage
- disorders
- Weaknesses
- reductionist
- deterministic
- Hard to establish cause and effect
- key beliefs
- Humanistic
- Maslow, Rogers, Kelly
- Key beliefs
- free will
- innate drive to achieve
- have to study humans
- hierachy of needs
- psychological
- safety
- love/belonging
- esteem
- self actualisation
- tendency for personal growth
- the self
- self esteem
- conditions of worth
- unconditional positive regard
- the self
- person cenetered counselling
- empathetic understanding
- unconditional positive regard
- congruent therapist
- strengths
- free will
- focus on the individual
- effective treatment
- weaknesses
- unscientific
- generalisability
- product of it's time
- Psychodynamic
- Freud
- structure of personality
- Id
- Ego
- Superego
- defence mechanisms
- repression
- Anna O
- displacement
- denial
- repression
- stages of development
- Oral
- Anal
- Phallic
- Oedipus complex
- Latency
- Psychoanalysis
- dream analysis
- free association
- transference
- Strengths
- Influential
- root cause
- contribution to society
- Weaknesses
- generalisability
- emphasis on sexual factors
- unscientific
- product of it's time
- Learning/ Behaviourist
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