Origins of Psychology worksheet
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Origins of Psychology and Research Methods Worksheet
Part I: Origins of Psychology
Within psychology, there are several perspectives used to describe, predict, and explain human behavior. The seven major perspectives in modern psychology are psychoanalytic, behaviorist, humanist, cognitive, neuroscientific/biopsychological, evolutionary, and sociocultural. Describe the perspectives, using two to three sentences each. Select one major figure associated with one of the perspectives and describe his or her work in two to three sentences. Type your response in the space below.
Psychoanalytic perspective means to explore the unconscious drives, internal motives, conflicts and childhood expierences. This perspective was created my the psychologist Sigmund Freud. He believed that through dreams, a slip of the tounge and free association that the unconscious mind could be revealed. He also stressed about how much of an influence the childhood expierences has on a persons behavior throughout life.
The behaviorist perspective emphasizes on objective, observable, and environmental influences on over behavior. In simple terms it focuses on learned behaviors. This perspecieve does not have anything to do with any sort of internal influence, solely on observable behaviors. -
Humanistic psychology emerged in the 1950’s. This perspective focuses on free will, human nature and self-actualization. Positive psychology is a root of this perspective and focuses on how people want to improve, grow and change themelves.
Cognitive perspective is the most influential of all perspectives in modern psychology. It emphasizes on language, memory,problem solving and decision making. The psychologists use an information processing model which compares the human mind to a computer to see just how the mind works.
Neuroscientific/biopsychological otherwise known as physiological psychology which focuses on genetics and damage to the
Origins of Psychology and Research Methods Worksheet
Part I: Origins of Psychology
Within psychology, there are several perspectives used to describe, predict, and explain human behavior. The seven major perspectives in modern psychology are psychoanalytic, behaviorist, humanist, cognitive, neuroscientific/biopsychological, evolutionary, and sociocultural. Describe the perspectives, using two to three sentences each. Select one major figure associated with one of the perspectives and describe his or her work in two to three sentences. Type your response in the space below.
Psychoanalytic perspective means to explore the unconscious drives, internal motives, conflicts and childhood expierences. This perspective was created my the psychologist Sigmund Freud. He believed that through dreams, a slip of the tounge and free association that the unconscious mind could be revealed. He also stressed about how much of an influence the childhood expierences has on a persons behavior throughout life.
The behaviorist perspective emphasizes on objective, observable, and environmental influences on over behavior. In simple terms it focuses on learned behaviors. This perspecieve does not have anything to do with any sort of internal influence, solely on observable behaviors. -
Humanistic psychology emerged in the 1950’s. This perspective focuses on free will, human nature and self-actualization. Positive psychology is a root of this perspective and focuses on how people want to improve, grow and change themelves.
Cognitive perspective is the most influential of all perspectives in modern psychology. It emphasizes on language, memory,problem solving and decision making. The psychologists use an information processing model which compares the human mind to a computer to see just how the mind works.
Neuroscientific/biopsychological otherwise known as physiological psychology which focuses on genetics and damage to the
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