Contemporary Approaches Flashcards
A psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in the environment (reinforcers)
Behaviorism
A psychologist who studies how unconscious motives and conflicts determine human behavior.
Psychoanalytic/Psychodynamic
A psychologist who studies how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how cognitive processes influence our behavior
Cognitive
Looking at self-actualization and how to reach full potential of self
Humanistic
Looking at the biological state of the body and how it influences behavior
Biological/Neuroscience
Looking a the culture and social group that one is in, and how it influences a person’s behavior
Sociocultural