Approaches in Psychology

Question 1

Charles Darwin evolution

Answer 1

Understanding human behaviour is about understanding its adaptive value.

Question 2

Humanistic approach.

Answer 2

Too much emphasis has been placed on the way that environment impacts on behaviour at the expense of considering the more important impact of the individual themselves.

Question 3

Behaviorist approach

Answer 3

The focus of psychology should be on studying the outwardly observable behaviours vacancy rather than internal processes that we cannot.

Question 4

Psychodynamic approach

Answer 4

I believe we can explain many physical problems by looking more closely at the mind. Dreams are a window into conflicts in the mind.

Question 5

Wilhelm Wundt

Answer 5

The first person to open a experimental lab that focuses and studies pyschology.

Question 6

Cognitive approach

Answer 6

In order to understand the human mind and brain we need to continue to build ever more sensitive computer models.

Question 7

Biological

Answer 7

You understand behaviour you have the brain and its chemical processes.

Question 8

Social learning theory

Answer 8

Behaviourism offers useful explanations for some; however,the approach needs to pay more attention to cognitive processes and learning indirectly from the behaviours of others.