Major Schools of Psychology

Question 1

Psychoanalytic

Answer 1

Personality shaped by childhood experience and unconscious mind e.g. psychosexual, Id, ego, superego

Question 2

Humanistic

Answer 2

People largely shaped by free will and personal growth, not extrinsic factors e.g free will, self-actualization, Maslow hierarchy of needs

Question 3

Trait

Answer 3

Personality made of stable traits consistent across a wide range of situations e.g. extroversion/introversion, Big 5 personality traits.

Question 4

Biological

Answer 4

Personality primarily influenced by a person’s genes e.g. inheritance, physiology, genetic determinism.

Question 5

Behaviorist

Answer 5

Behavior is shaped by conditioning and adaptation to environment e.g. classical/operant conditioning

Question 6

Social Cognitive

Answer 6

Learning is based on social observation and a person’s response is situational e.g. reinforcement, safety and reciprocal determinism.