Psychology - Approaches

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  • Approaches in Psychology
    • Humanism
      • Free Will
      • Self-Actualisation
        • Innate tendency to want to reach potential
      • Self Worth
        • Comes from congruence of self and not ideal self
      • MASLOW
        • Hierarchy of Needs
          • Needs to be satisfied before self-actualisation can be reached.
      • EVALUATION
        • Holistic, Limited application, Optimistic, Lacks evidence
    • Biological
      • Genotype/Phenotype
        • Nature/Nurture
      • Genetic basis of behaviour
        • Twin/Family studies
      • Evolution
        • Survival & Reproductive success
      • Evaluation
        • Scientific, Cause or Effect, Deterministic
    • Psy'Dynamic
      • Tip of the Iceburg
      • Structure of personality - id, ego, superego
        • id - unconscious, responds to instincts.  Ego- decision making. Superego - values & morals
      • Psychosexual Stages
        • 1) Oral.         2) Anal.         3) Phallic.     4) Latency Period.          5) Genital
      • Evaluation
        • Lacks scientific rigour.    Case studies - unique. Unfalsifiable. Untestable. Psychic determinism.
    • Cognitive
      • "Internal  mental processes studied through inference"
      • Computer models.
        • Machine reductionism, ignores emotional influences
      • Schemas
        • Innate or learned mental short-cuts, may lead to perceptual errors
      • Evalutation
        • Less deterministic than others. Emergence of cognitive neuroscience - BROCA
    • Social Learning
      • Vicarious Reinforcement
        • BOBO DOLL
      • Mediational Processes
        • ARRM
      • Identification
        • Role models
      • Evaluation
        • Underestimate biology - testosterone in aggression. Demand characteristics - lowers validity
    • Behaviourism
      • Classical Conditioning
        • Pavlov       UCS ->UCR. UCS+NS          ->UCR.        CS -> CR
      • Operant Conditioning
        • Skinner. Positive and negative reinforcement, Punishment.
      • Evaluation
        • Real life application - treating phobias.

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