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