explaining charlie using the 9 modern perspectives:biological developmental cognitive psychodynamic...

Explaining Charlie using the 9 Modern Perspectives:BiologicalBiological

DevelopmentalDevelopmental

CognitiveCognitive

PsychodynamicPsychodynamic

HumanisticHumanistic

BehavioralBehavioral

SocioculturalSociocultural

Evolutionary/Evolutionary/SociobiologicalSociobiological

TraitTrait

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BiologicalBiological




CognitiveCognitive


TraitTrait

Nine Modern Perspectives of Psychology


Evolutionary/Evolutionary/SociobiologicalSociobiological


View of Human Nature:View of Human Nature:

Natural Natural influences influences personalitiespersonalities,, behaviorsbehaviors and and

abilitiesabilities

What Determines Behavior:What Determines Behavior:

1. Neural structures1. Neural structures

2. Biochemistry2. Biochemistry

3. Inborn responses to 3. Inborn responses to

external cuesexternal cues

PerspectivePerspective

BiologicalBiological

Developmental

Psychodynamic

Sociocultural

Cognitive

Behavioral

Trait

Humanistic

Evolutionary/Sociobiological


•Neuroscience • The field devoted to understanding how

the brain creates thoughts, feelings, motives, consciousness, memories, and other mental processes



Behavior is developed and Behavior is developed and adapted over timeadapted over time



Natural selection Natural selection

Biological

Developmental

Psychodynamic

Sociocultural

Cognitive

Behavioral

Trait

Humanistic

EvolutionaryEvolutionary



We undergo predictable patterns We undergo predictable patterns of of changechange throughout our throughout our

entire life spanentire life span


The interaction betweenThe interaction between

heredity-genesheredity-genes and and environmentenvironment


Biological


Psychodynamic

Sociocultural

Cognitive

Behavioral

Trait

Humanistic




People are information-People are information-processing systemsprocessing systems


Mental interpretation of our Mental interpretation of our experienceexperience


Biological

Developmental

Psychodynamic

Sociocultural

CognitiveCognitive

Behavioral

Trait

Humanistic



Cognitive Neuroscience

• An interdisciplinary field emphasizing brain activity as information processing.

• Involves cognitive psych, neurology, biology, computer science, linguistics, and specialists

• from other fields who are interested in the connection between mental processes and the brain.

Example:

Studying the strategies in a game of chess



We are driven by dark forces We are driven by dark forces of the unconsciousof the unconscious



Unconscious needs, conflicts, Unconscious needs, conflicts, repressed memories, and repressed memories, and

childhood experienceschildhood experiences

Biological

Developmental


Sociocultural

Cognitive

Behavioral

Trait

Humanistic



Psychoanalyst

• Medical doctors with a specialty in psychiatry and advanced training in

• Freudian Methods



Emphasizes human growth, Emphasizes human growth, potential and free willpotential and free will



The influence of self-concept, The influence of self-concept, perceptions, and interpersonal perceptions, and interpersonal relationships, and on need for relationships, and on need for

personal growthpersonal growth

Biological

Developmental

Psychodynamic

Sociocultural

Cognitive

Behavioral

Trait




People have control over who they are

• People make choices, good or bad, that affect their lives


Major Humanistic Figures

Abraham Maslow Carl Rogers



Behavior is primarily shaped by Behavior is primarily shaped by learninglearning



Stimulus cues and our history of Stimulus cues and our history of rewards and punishmentsrewards and punishments

Environment causes behavior…not Environment causes behavior…not the mind or biologythe mind or biology

Biological

Developmental

Psychodynamic

Sociocultural

Cognitive


Trait

Humanistic



B.F Skinner

• Can’t prove the mind exists….

• so it’s too subjective to study


The Skinner Box


The “Air Crib”



People are social animals, so People are social animals, so human behavior must be human behavior must be

interpreted in the social context interpreted in the social context from a from a cultural perspectivecultural perspective



CulturesCultures

Social normsSocial norms

ExpectationsExpectations

Social learning Social learning

How are humans alike…and how How are humans alike…and how are they differentare they different

Biological

Developmental

Psychodynamic


Cognitive

Behavioral

Trait

Humanistic



Alike


Different



Individual differences result from Individual differences result from differences in our underlying differences in our underlying

patterns of stable patterns of stable characteristics…or traitscharacteristics…or traits



Each person’s unique Each person’s unique combination of traits combination of traits

Biological

Developmental

Psychodynamic

Sociocultural

Cognitive

Behavioral

TraitTrait

Humanistic

Evolutionary/Sociobiological Personality tests


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explaining charlie using the 9 modern perspectives:biological developmental cognitive psychodynamic...

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