Approaches in Psychology
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- Created on: 12-09-15 22:11
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- Psychology Perspectives
- Biological Approach
- Charles Darwin
- Genetics
- Evolution selected behaviour through natural selection
- Gender
- Behaviour is believed to be inherited
- Help relieve symptons of mental illness with drugs
- Cognitive Approach
- Wilhelm Wundt was the first to open a psychology lab
- closely linked with physiology processes in the brain
- Similar to computers, as in how we process information
- Memory and Sensory perception
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- Psychodynaic Approach
- Sigmund Freud
- Psychoanalysis
- Related to earlier experiences e.g. childhood
- Behaviour is determined by the unconscious mine
- Dream analysis
- Sigmund Freud
- Behavorism
- Behaviour can be changed
- Individual Behaviour
- Environment determines behaviour
- Learn from:
- Classical Conditioning
- Learning by association
- Ivan Pavlor
- Operant Conditioning
- The consequences of behaviour
- B.F. Skinner
- Classical Conditioning
- John B. Watson - 1913
- Elements of:
- Philosophy
- Methodology
- theory
- Humanistic Approach
- Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
- Responsible for own well -being
- free to change
- individual and unique
- feelings and self-image
- study of the whole person
- Seen through the eyes of the observer
- Evolutionary
- Selective pressures
- Help us survive - adaption
- Best adapted to survive and reproduce - naturally selected
- Sexually selected
- Explains behaviours such as anorexia or stress responses when finding out you're overdrawn at the bank
- Biological Approach
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