Approaches to Psychology

Question 1

Levels of analysis

Answer 1

1. Biological influence
   2 Pyschological
   3 Socio-cultural influences

Question 2

Biopsychosocial Approach

Answer 2

Together, the different levels of analysis form an integrated approach
CONSIDERS THE INFLUENCE OF BIOLOGICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL, AND SOCIAL-CULTURAL FACTORS

Question 3

Nature vs. Nuture

Answer 3

The debate over whether human traits are presented at birth or develop through experience

Question 4

Psychdynamic/ psychoanalytic

Answer 4

Clinical viewpoint emphasizing the understanding of mental disorders in terms of unconscious needs, desires, memories, and conflicts

Question 5

behaviorism

Answer 5

perspective that finds the sourceof our actions in environmental stimuli, rather than in mental processes

Question 6

Cognitive

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emphasizing mental processes, such as learning, memory, perception, and thinking as forms of information processing

Question 7

Biological

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Believes our behavior can be largely explained in terms of our genetics and physiology.
PHYSICAL point of view

Question 8

Behavioral Genetics

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the study of genetic and environmental influences on behaviors
influenced by nature and nuture

Question 9

Gestalt

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we don’t just see the world, we actively interpret what we see depending on what we are expecting to see

Question 10

Evolutionry

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attempts to explain useful psyschological traits- such as memory, perception, or language- as adaptations as products of natural selection

Question 11

Humanistic

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emphasizes study of whole person
look at human behavior through eyes of observer and the person behaving
how individuals perceive and interpret events
study of the self

Question 12

Social Cultural

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Focuses on how adults, peers, and cultural beliefs and attitudes all influence individual learning and behavior