Psychology today(7 contemporary approaches)
Environments matter
Behavioral
Thoughts matter
Cognitive
Carl rogers and Abraham maslow
Humanistic
Signing freud
Austrian physician Psychodynamic
Brains and bodies matter
Biological
7 contemporary approaches in psychology
Biological Behavioral Psycodynamic Humanistic Cognitive Evolutionary Sociocultural
Humanistic approach
Emphasizes free will, self-actualization and human nature as growth seeking experiences and motivations for behavior
Sociocultural approach
Emphasizes social interactions and cultural determinants of behavior and mental processes specifically
Survival genes matter
Evolutionary
Evolutionary approach
Focus on natural selection, adaption, and the evolution of behavior. Causes of behavior are attributed to those that lead to greater reproductive success (evolutionary theory of mate selection)
Biological approach
Human and animal behavior is seen as the direct result of events in the body
I matter( I decide)
Humanistic
Psychodynamic approach
Mental and behavioral problems are caused by conflicts between acceptable behaviors and unacceptable, unconscious desires
The unconscious matters
Psychodynamic
Other people matter
Sociocultural
Cognitive approach
Study how we think, remember, store and use info from our environment using a vast array of mental processes (How do we learn languages? How do we form concepts? What is intelligence?)
Behavioral approach
The idea you can modify behavior using various rewards and punishments