Approaches to Psychology

Please restate the question in your answer. Make sure you are writing in complete sentences.

1- What makes approaches to studying psychology different?

2-What were the THREE historical approaches?

3-Please briefly describe the above three. Use 1-2 key words that will help you better remember/associate to each of the varying approaches.

Warm Up

Remember you are pulling out key names, key terms, and key ideas!!

Psychoanalytic Psychology-

Behavioral Psychology-

Humanistic-

Cognitive-

Biological-

Sociocultural-

Please continue working on Present Day Approaches

Psychoanalytic

Behavioral psychology

-Ivan Pavlov, John Watson, B.F. Skinner

-Study of observable behavior, and responses to events in individuals environment

-Focus on conditioning, stimulus, reinforcement

Humanistic psychology-Response to behavioral psychology

-Abraham Maslow, Carl Rogers

-Human nature is evolving and self-directed

-Humans are NOT controlled by their environments/events

-Believe each individual has potential to develop fully (personal growth)

Cognitive psychology

-Jean Piaget, Noam Chomsky

- Study how we process, store, retrieve, and use information

-Also how this information influences our thinking/language/problem solving

-Focus on perceptions, memories, expectations

Biological psychology

-Focuses on the impact of biology on behavior

- Psychobiologists: study how brain, nervous system, hormones, and genetics influence our behavior

-”Behavior is the result of our physiological makeup”

Sociocultural psychology

-Focus on how our knowledge and ways of thinking/feeling/behaving depend on the culture you are a member of

-Cultural Perspectives plays a huge role!

-Gender, socioeconomic status may also play a role in how you think/feel/behave

Consider the following scenarios:

SCENARIO 1: You are attempting to figure out a way to teach your dog, Muffin, how to turn off the lights. Each time Muffin turns off the lights, you give her a treat as reinforcement.

-What type of approach would this be using?

SCENARIO 2: You are studying the genetics of your family to figure out what makes your mom and sister react the way they do to certain situations.

-What type of approach would this be using?

SCENARIO 3: You are examining different culture values and beliefs to discover what makes French citizens behave differently than American citizens.

-What type of approach would this be using?

Let’s examine…

Psychologist- individuals who have been trained to observe, analyze and evaluate behavior.

IMPORTANT-

Psychiatrist- Treat individuals with disturbed behavior. Psychiatrist CAN prescribe medicine.

SOOO… who actually uses these approaches?!

Let‘s pull out the 7 types of psychologists which we are going to examine

Please open your book to page 25.

Field of Psychology

Please copy down and complete the following organizer…

Field of Psychology