Seven Psychological Perspectives
Introduction Psychology is defined as the scientific study of behavior, mental processes, and growth of an individual. Psychology is a discipline that tries to describe and explain how individuals behave and think in a given situation. Since there are many different ways on how to fully understand how human beings behave and think, psychologists introduced different psychological perspectives which try to explain and emphasizes different aspects of human behavior. These different psychological perspectives helped psychologists to deeper understand how people behave and think in a given situation. This paper’s primary goal is to explain and thoroughly discuss three of the seven modern psychological perspectives and shows how it affects human
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Feminist or gender inequality had been a social issue for several years now. It is an issue where the society believes that women are best suited for family or non-career employment path. However, as modernization takes place, there were series of studies conducted which shows how this social issue is now being accepted by the society which also shows changes in the society’s behavior. In a study conducted by Nicolson (2015), they found out that gender inequality issues during the twenty-first century are now taken less seriously than what was frequently portrayed in the late 1990’s. During the late 1990’s, women are excluded from making organizational goals and are neglected to held managerial positions (cited from Sealy,2013). Although men traditionally succeed over women when it comes to pay, status and positions, women of today are now entering what was known as preserve male positions such as managerial positions and politics. They also found out that having gender balance inside a workforce would likely result in a better performance and effective decision making(cited from Sealy,2013). As modernization takes place, the society also changes the way they perceive things around them. In the gender inequality example mentioned, it shows that women of today are now eager to work and compete in a male dominated industry.
Conclusion
Each of the twenty-first century modern psychological perspectives play an important role and contributed significantly to understand human behavior. All of these perspectives are beneficial in understanding human behavior and it clearly depends on the psychologist which perspective they think is suited to be used for their research and experiment in deeper understanding human behavior and factors affecting
Feminist or gender inequality had been a social issue for several years now. It is an issue where the society believes that women are best suited for family or non-career employment path. However, as modernization takes place, there were series of studies conducted which shows how this social issue is now being accepted by the society which also shows changes in the society’s behavior. In a study conducted by Nicolson (2015), they found out that gender inequality issues during the twenty-first century are now taken less seriously than what was frequently portrayed in the late 1990’s. During the late 1990’s, women are excluded from making organizational goals and are neglected to held managerial positions (cited from Sealy,2013). Although men traditionally succeed over women when it comes to pay, status and positions, women of today are now entering what was known as preserve male positions such as managerial positions and politics. They also found out that having gender balance inside a workforce would likely result in a better performance and effective decision making(cited from Sealy,2013). As modernization takes place, the society also changes the way they perceive things around them. In the gender inequality example mentioned, it shows that women of today are now eager to work and compete in a male dominated industry.
Conclusion
Each of the twenty-first century modern psychological perspectives play an important role and contributed significantly to understand human behavior. All of these perspectives are beneficial in understanding human behavior and it clearly depends on the psychologist which perspective they think is suited to be used for their research and experiment in deeper understanding human behavior and factors affecting