Cassidy Willie, Hannah Mohr, Maya Dokic, Brock Hislop, Drew Fry, Alora Hess

Psychology’s Approaches

• Focuses on the study and alteration of people’s behaviors including actions, emotions, and thoughts.

• Relies on the theory that behavioral and mental disorders can be improved through behavior-modifying techniques.

• Four Recognized Disciplines:

Applied Behavior Analysis, Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, and Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

Behavioral:

• The study of the psychological basis of behavior.

• Mainly concerned with the relationship between Psychological processes and underlying Psychological events.

• Focus is the function of the brain

Biological:

• Revolves around the notion that if we want to know what makes people tick then we need to understand them and their thoughts and their behaviors.

• In all, Cognitive Psychology refers to the study of human mental processes and their role in thinking, feeling, and behaving.

Cognitive:

• Focuses on how evolution has shaped the mind and behavior

• Has roots in cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology as well as being closely linked to socio-biology

• Explains memory, perception, and language

Evolutionary:

• Studies an individual person as a whole, their subjective experience

• A look at human behavior through the eyes of the observer, as well as through the eyes of who is behaving (2 perspectives)

• Originated as a rejection of behavioral psychology

Humanistic:

• Also known as dynamic psychology

• Emphasis on study of forces that influence human behavior. feelings, and emotions

• Deals with conscious and unconscious motivation

Psychodynamic:

• Based on the idea that society and culture shape cognition.

• Accounts for more than the individual

• What Shapes A Persons Identity and Reality:

Social Customs, Beliefs, Values, Language

Socio-Cultural: