approaches assumptions (ao1)

Question 1

What are the assumptions of the psychodynamic approach?

Answer 1

• Behaviour is due to unconsious motives
• Our relationship with our parents and childhood conflicts create our behaviour and personality

Question 2

What are the assumptions of the behaviourist learning approach?

Answer 2

• all humans are born a blank slate
• all behaviour is learnt from the environment and therefore can be unlearnt
• free will is not possible

Question 3

What are the assumptions of the humanistic approach?

Answer 3

• All humans can determine their behaviour and have free will
• A persons subjective experience and understanding of the world is more important in understanding the person than objective reality

Question 4

What are the assumptions of the cognitive approach?

Answer 4

• It’s our internal mental processes that affect our behaviour and these should be studied scientifically allowing inferences to be made
• the mind works like a computer with inputs, processes, and outputs

Question 5

What are the assumptions of the social learning theory?

Answer 5

• learning is through observing and imitating a model
• considers cognitive factors involved in learning behaviour

Question 6

What are the assumptions of the biological approach?

Answer 6

• Physical factors such as hormones, neuroanatomy our nervous system and the inheritance of genes can affect behaviour
• an individuals genotype and pheneotype can affect their behaviour