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Title: 1.2 A Brief History of Psychology 6 Contemporary Approaches


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1.2 A Brief History of Psychology6 Contemporary
Approaches
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  • Phrenology The practice
  • examining bumps on a
  • persons skull to determine
  • that persons intellect and
  • character traits was an
  • Important practice in the
  • mid 1800s

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6 Contemporary Approaches
  • Each approach has a different focus or
    perspective and may use different research methods

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1. Biological Approach
  • Focus how genes, hormones and the NS interacts
    with the environment to influence learning,
    personality, memory, motivation, emotions, and
    coping

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2. Cognitive Approach
  • Focus how we process, store, and use info and
    how that info influences what we attend to,
    perceive, learn, remember, believe, feel.

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3. Behavioral Approach
  • How organisms learn new behaviors or modify
    existing ones depending on whether events in the
    environment reward or punish these behaviors

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4. Psychoanalytic Approach
  • Focus Unconscious motivations influence our
    behavior.
  • Think Freud

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5. Humanistic Approach
  • Focus Each person has great freedom in directing
    his or her future, a great capacity for personal
    growth, a great amount of intrinsic worth, and
    great potential for self-fulfillment

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6. Sociocultural Approach
  • Focus Ethnicity, gender, culture, and
    socioeconomic status influence our behavior.
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