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Title: 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?
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