psychology’s perspectives
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Psychology’s Perspectives. The Big Seven. Neuroscience Perspective. Focus on how the physical body and brain creates our emotions, memories and sensory experiences. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Psychology’s Perspectives
The Big Seven
Neuroscience Perspective Focus on how the physical body and
brain creates our emotions, memories and sensory experiences.
If you could not remember the names of your parents and went to a psychologist who adheres to the neuroscience perspective, what might they say?
Evolutionary Perspective Focuses on Darwinism. We behave the way we
do because we inherited those behaviors.
Thus, those behaviors must have helped ensure our ancestors survival.
Mother nature practicing selective breeding
How could this behavior ensured Homer’s ancestors survival?
Psychodynamic Perspective Fathered by Sigmund
Freud.
Our behavior comes from unconscious drives.
Usually stemming from our childhood.What might a psychoanalyst say is the
reason someone always needs to be chewing gum?
Behavioral Perspective
Focuses on our OBSERVABLE behaviors.
Only cares about the behaviors that impair our living, and attempts to change them.
If you bit your fingernails when you were nervous, a behaviorist would not focus on calming you down, but rather focus on how to stop you from biting your nails.
BEHAVIORISTS
How people learn Rewards and
punishment
John B. Watson
Cognitive Perspective
Focuses on how we think (or encode information)
How do we see the world?
How did we learn to act to sad or happy events?
Cognitive Therapist attempt to change the way you think.
Meet girl Get Rejected by girl
Did you learn to be depressed
Or get back on the horse
Social-Cultural Perspective
Focus on how your culture effects your behavior.
Even in the same high school, behaviors can change in accordance to the various subcultures.
Humanistic Perspective
Focuses on positive growth Attempt to seek self-actualization Therapists use active listening and
unconditional positive regard.
Mr. Rogers would have made a great Humanistic Therapist!!!
Approaches cont.
HUMANISTIC PSYCHOLOGY people try to achieve their
maximum potential (self actualization)
Promote health and self-growth
What Approach is Best? What perspectives should we consider
throughout this class?
ECLECTIC Combination of approaches
Some topics/issues have become dominated by a certain approach, so this will lead our thinking, but all should be in our considerations.
Apply Perspectives to Case Study: Application - Andrea Yates
Other applications – test anxiety, autism