modern perspectives
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Modern Perspectives. Current Views on Behavior & Thinking. Biological Perspective. Emphasizes biological processes and heredity as the key to understanding behavior. Study the structures of the brain & central nervous system, functioning of the neurons, hormones, & genes. Neuroscience. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Modern Perspectives
Current Views on Behavior & Thinking
+Biological Perspective
Emphasizes biological processes and heredity as the key to understanding behavior.
Study the structures of the brain & central nervous system, functioning of the neurons, hormones, & genes.
Neuroscience
+Neuroscience
Combines psychologists, biologists, biochemists, medical researchers, & more.
A part of the biological perspective.
Physiological psychologists, psychobiologists, or neuropsychologists.
+Psychoanalytic Perspective
Derived from Freud’s theories.
Modified considerably by “neo-Freudians”.
Emphasizes unconscious motivation & early childhood experience.
+Behavioral Perspective
Emphasizes learning & the role of environment.
+Cognitive Perspective
Mental processes People consciously perceive,
remember, think, organize, analyze, decide, & then respond.
Perception, thinking, memory, language, & more
+Humanistic Perspective
Humans can make rational, conscious choices.
Importance of people’s own subjective experience as key to understanding behavior.
Reject psychoanalytic & behaviorist views.
+Evolutionary Perspective
How humans have evolved & adapted behaviors.
Inherited tendencies & dispositions influence a wide range of behaviors.
How we select mates, level of intelligence, & why we help other people.
But realize genes alone do not control destiny.
Inherited tendencies are NOT set in concrete.
+Sociocultural Perspective
Emphasize social & cultural influences.
Important to understand those influences when interpreting the behavior of others.