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7 Main Psychological Approaches

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  • Psychodynamic
  • Humanistic
  • Behavioral
  • Cognitive
  • Biological
  • Sociocultural
  • Evolutionary
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Cognitive Approach

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The study of mental processes (thinking, learning, communicating nd solving problems)

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Behaviorism Approach

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Focuses on observable behavior - BF SKINNER & WATSON

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Psychoanalytic

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Unconscious forces and
childhood experiences
affect our behavior and
mental processes - FREUD

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Humanistic Approach

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Study of potential and personal growth; reaching full potential; unconditional love - MASLOW & CARL ROGERS

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Evolutionary Perspective

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attempts to explain useful mental and psychological traits in terms of Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection

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Psychodynamic Perspective

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focus on the unconscious and how it develops personality - FREUD (modern)

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Sociocultural Approach

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How behavior and thinking vary across situations

and cultures

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Biological Perspective

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How biological (genetics, neural, hormonal) and
physiological processes impact behavior and mental
processes.

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Positive Psychology

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promotes human flourishing

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Wundt

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created first lab and fathered structuralism

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Structuralism

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focused on identifying the elements of thought and mind using introspection

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Titchener:

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helped develop structuralism

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James:

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introduced functionalism

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Functionalism

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Assumes all things cognitive have a purpose; structures of consciousness must serve a function

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Ivan Pavlov

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Classical Conditioning - dog bell/saliva experiment

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Freud

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Emphasis on unconscious motivations, Founder of psychoanalysis, 4 stage psychosexual theory of personality
development, Dream interpretation, free association
Defense mechanisms

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Binet

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French psychologist who created first intelligence test

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Thorndike

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created the law of effect; believed rewarded behavior is likely to recur - BEHAVORISM

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Watson

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founder of BEHAVORISM and creator of little albert experiment (little boy and white rat

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Piaget

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Created 4 stage theory of cognitive development

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Whorf

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cognitive linguist who thought Language influences cognition

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Erikson

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8 stage theory of psychosocial development that explains how conflicts that yield certain personality characteristics, depending on resolution (identity vs. role confusion

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Rogers

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HUMANIST who developed client-centered therapy to help patients reach self-actualization

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Skinner

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BEHAVIORIST developed operant conditioning – (the idea that behavior is determined by its consequences)

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Harlow

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developed the monkey experiment to examine attachment in young

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Asch

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conformity experiments demonstrated the power of social influence (line experiment)

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Maslow

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HUMANIST developed the hierarchy of psychological needs (self-actualization)

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Ainsworth

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Attachment styles (secure, insecure-avoidant, resistant/insecure-ambivalent)

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Bandura

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Social learnign theory - modeling, Bobo doll study

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Kholberg

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3 stage theory of moral development (preconventional, conventional, postconventional)

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Chomsky

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nativism- believes language is innate

a critical period for language development

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Milgram

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Obedience to authority (shock experiment)

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Zimbardo

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Stanford Prison Experiment - Importance of social roles

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Garder

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multiple intelligence theory - 9 types

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Loftus

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Unreliability of eyewitness testimony

Memory as active construction

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Sternberg

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triarchic theory of multiple intelligences - creative, practical, analytical

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Spearman

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common general intelligence - “g”

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Darwin

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natural selection and evolution

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Ekman

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theory that facial expression are universal

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