Approaches Flashcards
Behaviorism
Environmental learning
Nurture
Biological
Physiology
Genetics
Nature
Cognitive
Mental Processes
Psychoanalytical
Unconscious
Childhood
Humanistic
Freewill
Basic goodness
Multicultural
Socio-cultural
Role of structure
Gestalt
Emphasizes the organization process in behavior
Focuses on problem of perception
Psychoanalytic
People are driven by instincts, largely sexual
Behaviorist
Behavior is personality
Determined by history of reinforcement
Humanistic
People are inherently good, society ruins them, people strive to satisfy a hierarchy of motives toward seld actualization
Cognitive
People are rational and want to predict and control their world, personal constructs help in this process
Biological
Biological factors such as body type or genetics
Psychoanalytic
Emerge from initial psychological conflicts that are unconscious, often arising from childhood trauma
Biomedical
Traceable to physical abnormalities, biochemistry, structural defects
Cognitive
Results from unusual ways of thinking, inappropriate belief system
Behavioral
Results from faulty contingencies of reinforcement contexts contribute to the development of psychological disorders
Cultural
Variables such as social class, gender and rural urban contexts contribute to the development of psychological disorders
Humanistic/Existential Model
Results from Failure to fulfill ones potential
