Perspectives Flashcards
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Biological perspective
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How body and brain enable emotions, memories, sensory experiences
Brain circuits
2
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Evolutionary perspective
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How natural selection or traits promoted survival of genes
3
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Psychodynamic perspective
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How behavior springs from unconscious drive and conflict
4
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Behavioral perspective
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How we learn observable behaviors
External stimuli
5
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Cognitive perspective
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Interpretation of a situation affects our thinking
How we encode, process, store and retrieve information
6
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Humanistic perspective
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How we meet our needs for love and acceptance and achieve self fulfillment
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Social cultural perspective
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How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures
