Perspectives--

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Perspectives--

• The 6 main schools of thought in psychology!

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Psychoanalysis

• Who? Freud
• What? Unconscious/Personality
• Where? Europe and US
• When? One of the earliest perspectives
• Why? To show the importance
• of other aspects of the psyche

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• Behaviorists
• Who? John B. Watson, BF Skinner
• What? Study Observable Behavior
• Where? USA
• When? Early 1900s
• Why? To prove that we cant study what we cant
  see and also that conditioning is the most
  significant factor in determining who you are.

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Humanist

• Who? Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow
• What? All humans are good and deserve
• unconditional positive regard
• Where? USA
• When? 1960s
• Why? To prove that we all have the potential
  within us to be amazing individuals

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Cognitive

• Who? Piaget/Beck as well as others NOT
  behaviorists
• What? The way we think (mental processes)
  influence our life in a big way
• Where? USA
• When? 1960s-70s and forward
• Why? To show thinking influences everything

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Social or Socio-cultural

• Who? Social psychologists like Milgram,
  Zimbardo, Asch, and many others
• What? Society influences uswe are not islands
• Where? USA
• When? 1960s, 70s, and more recent
• Why? To prove that society has the greatest
  impact on human behavior

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Biological

• Who? Neuroscientists/psychiatrists--MD
• What? Brain anatomy and function have a major
  impact on behavior
• Where? USA
• When? Very recently1980s and on
• Why? To prove that brain dysfunction is the same
  as heart dysfunction and should be treated as
  a medical ailment

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Helping TESS!

• You will have a home group and a treatment group.
  You will meet in your home groups first and
  decide what treatment team you will be on
  psychodynamic, humanist, behaviorist, social,
  cognitive, or biopsychology.
• Now, you will meet up with your treatment team.
  After introductions, you will divide out the
  task. As a treatment team, you will need to
  complete the following
• Informative visual to use during your class
  presentation.
• Thorough understanding/background of your
  methodology for your class and group
  presentation.
• Work within the bounds and vocabulary of your
  methodology to diagnose and treat Tess using the
  treatment form provided.
• Once you complete the task, your treatment group
  will do a short class presentation to introduce
  the class to the different areas.

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Helping TESS!

• Once all treatment groups have presented, you
  will meet back in your home groups where you will
  discuss your methodology in more depth and how it
  applies to Tess discussing specifically in
  specific vocabulary how you might diagnose and
  treat Tess.
• Once everyone has shared their perspective you
  will discuss and approve an overall treatment
  plan for Tess potentially using more than just
  one method.
• Following your discussion, you will present to
  the class what you choose for Tess and the
  reasons for your choice.

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RUBRIC!!!!!!!

• Grade/Rubric
• Knowledge Demonstrated ____/10
• Overall Effort ____/10
• Professional Quality ____/10
• Accuracy of Information ____/10
• Creativity ____/10
• Team Cooperation ____/10
• Total ____/60