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Modern Perspectives

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.

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Modern Perspectives

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  1. Modern Perspectives Current Views on Behavior & Thinking

  2. 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

  3. Neuroscience • Combines psychologists, biologists, biochemists, medical researchers, & more. • A part of the biological perspective. • Physiological psychologists, psychobiologists, or neuropsychologists.

  4. Psychoanalytic Perspective • Derived from Freud’s theories. • Modified considerably by “neo-Freudians”. • Emphasizes unconscious motivation & early childhood experience.

  5. Behavioral Perspective • Emphasizes learning & the role of environment.

  6. Cognitive Perspective • Mental processes • People consciously perceive, remember, think, organize, analyze, decide, & then respond. • Perception, thinking, memory, language, & more

  7. Humanistic Perspective • Humans can make rational, conscious choices. • Importance of people’s own subjective experience as key to understanding behavior. • Reject psychoanalytic & behaviorist views.

  8. 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.

  9. Sociocultural Perspective • Emphasize social & cultural influences. • Important to understand those influences when interpreting the behavior of others.

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