Assumptions of the Approaches (AP P2)

Question 1

Psychodynamic approach

Answer 1

A person’s unconscious is very important in determining their behaviour

Question 2

Behaviourist approach

Answer 2

All behaviour is influenced by the environment via conditioning

Question 3

SLT

Answer 3

There are important mental processes that mediate between stimulus and response

Question 4

Humanistic approach

Answer 4

Emphasises the importance of subjective experience, free will, and each person’s capacity for self-determination

Question 5

Cognitive approach

Answer 5

Areas such as memory, perception and thinking can be studied indirectly by making inferences about what processes are happening inside people’s minds

Question 6

Biological approach

Answer 6

• Everything psychological is at first biological
• The mind and body are the same