M1L3: Perspectives/Approaches in Psychology Flashcards
This view is concerned with the neurobiological processes that underlie behavior and mental processes.
Biological Perspective
Biological perspective relates actions to events taking place inside the body, particularly the?
Brain and Nervous system
This states that all thoughts, feelings, behavior ultimately have a biological cause.
Biological Perspective
Biological perspective involves:
1.) brain study
2.) genetics
3.) hormones
4.) immune and nervous systems
The primary tenet of Behaviorism:
Psychology should concern itself with the observable behavior of people, not with unobservable events that take place in their minds.
The Russian physiologist that is widely known for describing the phenomenon “classical conditioning”
Ivan Pavlov
Classical conditioning demonstrated an experiment with?
dogs
This view is concerned with the mental processes.
Cognitive Perspective
Cognitive Perspective includes:
1.) perceiving
2.) remembering
3.) reasoning
4.) deciding
5.) problem solving
6.) relating all these processes to behavior
Foundation of Cognitive Perspective:
Gestalt Psychology
People who are the founder of Gestalt psychology and other Cognitive Perspective
Max Wertheimer, Wolfgang Kohler, and Kurt Koffka
He is most widely known for his stage of theory of cognitive development
Jean Piaget
He studied intellectual development in children
Jean Piaget
This view focuses on the dynamic relations between the conscious and unconscious mind.
Psychodynamic Perspective
Psychodynamic Perspective involve psychological forces that might relate to?
early childhood experiences
In the late 19th century, Psychodynamics originated with?
Sigmund Freud
Freud suggested that psychological processes are flows of psychological energy in a complex brain or also known as?
libido
This view stresses the human capacity for self-fulfillment and the central roles of consciousness, self-awareness, and decision making.
Humanistic-Existential Perspective
This views people as free to choose and as being responsible for choosing ethical conduct.
Existentialism
Humanistic-Existential Perspective are grounded in the work of?
1.) Carl Rogers (1951)
2.) Abraham Maslow (1970)
He is considered as the founder of Humanistic Psychology
Abraham Maslow
Maslow is noted for his conceptualization of?
“Hierarchy of Human needs”
These are the larger scale forces within cultures and societies
Sociocultural factors
Examples of sociocultural factors
attitudes,child-rearing practices, gender roles, race
This is the scientific study of how people’s thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others.
Social Psychology
The main tenet of Cultural Psychology
Mind and culture are inseparable and mutually constitutive (people are shaped by their culture and their culture is also shaped by them)
In the late 1920s, Cultural-historical Psychology was formed by?
Lev Vygotsky
This focuses on how aspects of culture are transmitted from one generation to the next.
Cultural-historical Psychology
Sociocultural factors within cultures and societies affect the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors of individuals.
True
