7 Perspectives Of Psychology

7 PERSPECTVES

• BIOLOGICAL- the interaction between anatomy (brain/nervous system) and behavior. Main Idea: what affects your body affects your behavior

• BEHAVIOR- the study of conservable behavior. Main idea: everything id trained & learned, nothing is born

• COGNITIVE- in order to understand someone's behavior, we must understand how to think

• EVOLUTIONARY- behavior of how adaptive that behavior is to our survival. We inherited behaviors of our survived ancestors

• HUMANISTIC- argue that humans have unique qualities. view humans as positive. self actualization- process of fulfilling your potential

• SOCIOCULTRUA- says that much of your behavior and your feeling are dicatated by the culture you live in 

• PSYCHODYNAMIC- Behavior is result of unconscious dynamics, inner forces.
  Not based on observation