The Six Modern Approaches to Psychology

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The Six Modern Approaches to Psychology
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Biological Perspective

• Brain function
• Nervous system
• Glands and hormones
• Genetics

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Cognitive Perspective

• CognitionThinking
• Our own way of thinking shapes who we are
• Our world grows more sophisticated as we grow up,
  experience new things, and change
• The mind is like a personal computer we receive
  input, manipulate it, store and retrieve it

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Humanistic Perspective

• Stresses the human capacity for self fulfillment
  and self-awareness
• Your personal choices and decisions make you who
  you are
• We invent and reinvent ourselves

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Psychoanalytic Perspective

• The power of the unconscious mind
• Childhood experiences
• Relationships with parents
• Unacceptable urges, desires, feelings sex,
  aggression, fear

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Learning approach

• Environmental influences
• Life is a series of rewards and punishments that
  dictate our behavior

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Sociocultural perspective

• Ethnicity
• Gender
• Culture
• Socioeconomic status
• Nationality and region

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How can the different approaches to psychology be
used to explain the following
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Lindsay Lohan?
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Britney Spears?
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Michael Vick?
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Senator Larry Craig?
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Chris Benoit?
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Owen Wilson?