QUESTION ONE Name Five Approaches to Psychology 1. Social Psychology Social psychology is about understanding individual behaviour in a social context. Baron‚ Byrne‚ and Suis (1989) defined social psychology as “the scientific field that seeks to understand the nature and causes of individual behaviour in social situations”. It therefore looks at human behaviour as influenced by other people and the social context in which it occurs. 2. Comparative Psychology This is a science which studies
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Humanistic Theory and Trait Theory My research was comparing the Humanistic Theory and Trait Theory. Humanistic Theory is based on the ability for individuals to be able to uniquely diverse with our own prospective on life. It evaluates how an individual’s choice can affect their decision making and how the decisions can take a positive or negative effect to the conclusion of that choice. It also focuses on how we allow others to manipulate us into believing what our self worth is‚ if we are capable
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Compare and Contrast the Behaviourist Perspective with one other major approach in Psychology Psychology is a human science‚ which aims to describe and understand behaviour‚ emotion and mental processes of the mind. Modern Psychology began in the laboratories of Wilhelm Wundt at the University of Leipzug Germany in 1879. (Lucy T Benjamin JR 2007). As the study of psychology grew‚ disagreements within the science arose leading to scholar’s creating different theories to outline their understanding
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This is a tricky question‚ considering it all depends on what the issue that needs resolution. But going off of a broad idea I’d have to say I mostly agree with the humanistic variant. Humanistic therapy focuses on issues that are directly related to their current everyday situation. It focuses on changes that a person needs to make in their current lives in order to find peace with what ever issue they are currently facing. ( p.579-580) I feel this would be the best approach (or even most of the
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Cognitive Disorder /Dementia Cognitive disorder is a class of disorder in which is characterized by a impairment in cognitive abilities and daily functioning‚ Cognitive disorders and not psychologically based. Cognitive impairment involving a generalized and progressive deficit in the areas of memory‚ the learning of new information‚ the ability to communicate‚ in making good make judgments‚ and in motor coordination. This loss of intellect‚ memory‚ or mental capacity‚ is usually accompanied
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Cognitive Functioning PSY/475 April 22‚ 2013 Cognitive Functioning Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory *Componential *Metacomponents *Performance *Knowledge-acquisition Speaker Notes: Sternberg’s Triarchic theory was first introduced around 1985 and has been widely used since. Sternberg believed that that intelligence has three facets to help understand the human mind (Hogan‚ 2007). There are many different sub-divisions and then some of those have subparts to them as well. The first is componential
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However‚ many others claim that experimental validity is an inappropriate yardstick for evaluating psychodynamic theory and that the theory is verified in practice in the analyst-patient interview. The prestige of psychoanalysis in our Prozac-popping culture has tumbled. Marginalized yet vital‚ psychoanalytic thoughtboth at training institutes and in academic
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Cognitive Dissonance theory Core Assumptions and Statements Cognitive dissonance is a communication theory adopted from social psychology. The title gives the concept: cognitive is thinking or the mind; and dissonance is inconsistency or conflict. Cognitive dissonance is the psychological conflict from holding two or more incompatible beliefs simultaneously. Cognitive dissonance is a relatively straightforward social psychology theory that has enjoyed wide acceptance in a variety of disciplines
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experience things are due to our biology. Genes‚ chemicals such as hormones‚ brain structure and systems. They believe that the environment does not have any influence on your condition. This approach tends to fit in with the nature nurture debate. A biological perspective is relevant to the study of psychology in three ways: 1. Comparative method: different species of animal can be studied and +compared. This can help in the search to understand human behaviour. 2. Physiology: how the nervous system
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Cognitive Constraints in Selected Instructional Approaches and Materials in the Philippine Public Schools Juan Jr Espina Introduction Instructional designers now days focus on strategies on how to improve instructional methods by eliminating the barriers of learning considering that the human brain is limited in the amount of information that it can process (Miller‚ G.‚ 1956). According to Clark‚R.‚ Nguyen‚ F. and Sweller‚ J. (2006)‚ human cognitive load may be enhanced through eliminating
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