Perspectives
Explanations that are based on underlying biological principals.
What is the Biological Perspective?
Based on the theories of Freud about our unconscious motives and desires
What is Psychodynamic Theory?
This group rejects the study of the mind (and favors the study of observable behavior)
Who are the behaviorists?
An approach that emphasizes inherited, adaptive aspects of behavior and mental processes.
What is Evolutionary Psychology?
The study of the brain and the nervous system
What is neuroscience?
Explanations of behavior & mental processes based on the combination of biological, psychological and social factors.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
Psychologists like Wundt and Titchener developed the study of sensations and personal experience analyzed as basic elements
What is Structuralism?
Functionalism is a reversal of the views of this original school of thought.
What is Structuralism?
The process of fully developing personal potentials.
What is self-actualization?
The author of psychodynamic theory.
Who is Freud?
An approach that emphasizes inherited and adaptive aspects
What is Evolutionary psychology?
William James advanced the study of behaviors in terms of adaptations.
What is Functionalism?
What is the Psychological perspective?
The study of information processing, thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving
What is Cognitive Psychology?
Ms. Reber's husband has a PhD in this.
What is Neuroscience?
The most traditional view that individual's behavior is the result of our internal psychological processes
What is the psychological perspective?
B.F. Skinner and others made psychology a field to study observable actions (as opposed to studying the mind).
What is Behaviorism?
What is Humanistic Psychology?
Study of people as inherently good and motivated to learn and improve
What is Humanistic Psychology?
What is child psychiatry?
An approach that combines behavioral principles with cognition (i.e. perception, thinking, and anticipation) to explain behavior
What is Cognitive Behaviorism?
The German psychologist Max Wertheimer and his followers viewed the field as a study of thinking, learning, and perception in whole units, not parts
What is Gestalt Psychology?
This theory goes against an understanding that humans have free will to behave as they choose from day-to-day.
The idea that all behavior has prior causes that would completely explain one’s choices and actions if all such causes were known
What is Determinism?
The German word for the whole being more than the sum of its parts.
What is gestalt?