Psychology levels of analysis

Bio psycho social approach

Also religion and culture

Objectives

• Identify 5 main levels of analysis.

• Be able to understand how complementary the various perspectives.

• Be able to give examples for each level of analysis.

How to understand any phenomena?

analysis

Case

• A 10 yrs old boy was hit by his teacher on his back and he started to refuse going to school.

• Discuss the possibility of bio psych social analysis in this case.

Biological

Any factor has direct biological influence including genes, viruses, toxins even in the antenatal period

Biology

• Genes.

• Antenatal life.

• Toxins.

• Illness.

Psychological

Is related to the personality type, way of thinking and many factors including self esteem.

Psychology

• Childhood learning.

• Emotional process.

• Cognitive process.

Social

Is related to current social environment and its positive and negative contributions to the current phenomena.

Socio-cultural

• Environment.

• Society belief.

• Media.

• Parents behavior.

• Schools.

Anger

• List factor in each area of the bio-psycho-social-cultural and religion model to explain anger.