Approaches Flashcards
What are the different approaches to understanding behaviour?
- Biological approach
- Behaviouristic approach
- Cognitive approach
- Psychodynamic approach
- Humanistic approach
Biological approach
Explains how behaviour is created by the physical causes in our brains and bodies, including our genes, neurotransmitters and hormones
The endocrine system
Produces hormones that impact behaviour
Psychodynamic approach
Our behaviour is caused by our unconscious mind, and how our past experiences have shaped our unconscious mind and behaviour
Humanistic approach
The concept of the self, humans are able to make their own rational decisions. This conflicts with the other approaches, as they are largely based on the idea that our actions are due to outside forces beyond our control
Self concept
How you see yourself
Cognitive approach
How our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, attitudes and expectations effect our behaviour
Cognitive approach
How our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, attitudes and expectations effect our behaviour
The goals of psychology
- Describe behaviour
- Explain the behaviour
- Predict the behaviour
- Control the behaviour
Introspection
The first systematic experimental attempt to study the mind by breaking up conscious awareness into basic structures of thought, image and sensations
Psychology
The scientific study of the mind, behaviour and experience
Science
A means of acquiring knowledge through systematic and objective investigation. The aim is to discover general laws
Who opened the first lab for psychology
Wilhelm Wundt in 1879
