Unit 1: Perspectives

Question 1

Looks at the physical makeup and operation of our brains influence on our personality, preferences, behavior patterns, abilities. Behavior is a result of heredity, nervous system, endocrine, environment.

Answer 1

Biological

Question 2

What could be going on in this person’s body to affect his/her behavior? How do hormones or other chemicals in the body affect the behavior? What other physical issues could this person be experiencing?

Answer 2

Biological

Question 3

Strengths: Psychology is an objective science, studies behavior. Evolutionary psychology - survival of the fittest.
Weaknesses: Does not reference mental processes. Does not look at environment/surroundings affecting you.

Answer 3

Biological

Question 4

Our actions are a direct result of the way we processionals information from our environment. Cognitions - thoughts, expectations, perceptions, memories, states of consciousness.

Answer 4

Cognitive

Question 5

How does this person interpret the situation he/she is in? Because of this interpretation, how does that affect his/her behavior? How does this person’s mental processes control the situation?

Answer 5

Cognitive

Question 6

Strengths: Gives us power to make decisions - affecting our behavior as we interpret and analyze. We behave the way we think about it.
Weaknesses: Behavior changes based on if you feel supported or not by the environment. Perception can be way off.

Answer 6

Cognitive

Question 7

the study of the evolution of behavior and the mind, using principles of natural selection. Behavior is adaptive and hereditary and cultural.

Answer 7

Evolutionary

Question 8

Strengths: Genetics are used to show how people have evolved, not how people are different.
Weaknesses - controversial: most destructive behaviors come out of genetic tendencies

Answer 8

Evolutionary

Question 9

Suggests that we are motivated by the energy of irrational desires generated in our unconscious mind.

Answer 9

Psychodynamic

Question 10

Strengths: Some bad experiences affect us on a conscious level.
Weaknesses: Assuming something bad happens to us.

Answer 10

Psychodynamic

Question 11

A focus on our observable behaviors and rewards and punishments. A viewpoint which finds the source of our actions win the environmental stimuli.

Answer 11

Behavioral

Question 12

What behavior can I identify in this scenario? What reward does this person get by behaving this way? Or, has this person been punished for something and that is why he/she is behaving that way?

Answer 12

Behaviorism

Question 13

Strengths: More scientific - can see what attributes our behavior. Focuses on reinforcing rewards and avoiding punishment.
Weaknesses: No true “why?” of what happened, focus is on changing behavior.

Answer 13

Behavioral

Question 14

A viewpoint which emphasizes human ability, growth, potential, and free will. Emphasizes our mental thoughts and process as the root of our behavior.

Answer 14

Humanistic

Question 15

What positive qualities does this person demonstrate? How can this person use these qualities to better the situation?

Answer 15

Humanism

Question 16

Strengths: Emphasizes positive side of human nature. All about growth. Focuses on good qualities and shaping behavior.
Weaknesses: Not the most “scientific”.

Answer 16

Humanistic

Question 17

How situations and culture affect our behavior and thinking

Answer 17

Social-Cultural

Question 18

Is there something in. the prompt that explains a cultural or social aspect of this person’s behavior?

Answer 18

Sociocultural

Question 19

Strengths: Emphasizes the importance of social interaction, social learning, and a cultural perspective
Weaknesses: For many years, psychology was blind to the influence of culture on people’s behavior.

Answer 19

Social-Cultural

Question 20

Integrated approach that incorporates biological, psychological, and socio-cultural viewpoints

Answer 20

Biopsychosocial

Question 21

Strengths: Each portion compliments the other
Weaknesses: Doesn’t look at other approaches

Answer 21

Biopsychosocial

Question 22

What unconscious conflict could this person have? What could be buried in the unconscious (fear, aggression, a conflict). How is the conflict within the unconscious seeking release (in what behavior)?

Answer 22

Psychoanalytic