Modern Psychologists categorize their work by perspective in order to cover the different ways to view human behavior. They use these seven varieties of perceptive to study how we think, feel, and behave.
1. Biological
Connecting with the last chapter:
1. Biological
- Interaction between the brain/nervous system and behavior.
- Key point: What affects your body affects your behavior.
- Behavior is determined by your environment and experiences not genetics.
- Key point: Everything is trained and learned. Nothing is born
- Key People: Watson, Skinner, Pavlov
- In order to understand behavior, we must understand how they think
- Key person: Jean Piaget
- Behavior can best be explained in terms of how adaptive that behavior is to our survival.
- Key Person: Charles Darwin (Natural Selection)
- View human nature as positive
- Self Actualization: process of fulfilling your potential
- Much of your behavior and your feelings are dictated by the culture you live in.
- The interaction between the conscious and unconscious (mental process that we do not normally have access to but are influenced by) shapes behavior.
- Stresses the importance of childhood experiences to the development of personality
1 Talk Back(s):
I feel like behavioral perspective is the most truthful perspective out of the seven. I believe, just like Aristotle, that human behavior is determined by our experiences, not genetics.
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