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1 Contemporary Approaches to Psychology

2 Historical Approaches to Psychology
Do-Now: (Discussion) Describe the 4 Historical Approaches to Psychology Which approaches do you feel have most influenced Modern Psychology?

3 Contemporary Approaches to Psychology
Biological: Biochemical/Physical factors Behavioral Genetics Cognitive Neuroscience Evolutionary: Natural Selection “Survival of the Fittest” Charles Darwin ( )

4 Contemporary Approaches to Psychology
Psychodynamic: “Unconscious” drives/conflicts Past/Early childhood Sigmund Freud ( ) Behavioral: Observable behavior Events in the environment (rewards/punishments) Ivan Pavlov ( ) B.F. Skinner ( )

5 Contemporary Approaches to Psychology
Cognitive: How we process, retrieve, and store information Mental activities (thinking, knowing, remembering, communicating) Jean Piaget ( ) Noam Chomsky (1928-Present)

6 Contemporary Approaches to Psychology
Humanistic: Individual/Self-directed choices Carl Rogers ( ) Abraham Maslow ( ) Social-Cultural: Sex, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, culture, environment, socioeconomic status Stanley Milgram ( )

7 Contemporary Approaches to Psychology
Which contemporary approaches of Psychology do feel are most favorable? Why?

8 Contemporary Approaches to Psychology
Perspective Focus Sample Questions Biological/ Neuroscience How do the body and brain enable emotions? How are messages transmitted in the body? How is blood chemistry linked with moods and motives? Evolutionary How does natural selection of traits promote the perpetuation of one’s genes? How does evolution influence behavior tendencies? Behavior genetics How much do our genes and our environments influence our individual differences? To what extent are psychological traits such as intelligence, personality, sexual orientation, and vulnerability to depression attributable to our genes? To our environment?

9 Contemporary Approaches to Psychology
Perspective Focus Sample Questions Psychodynamic How does behavior spring from unconscious drives and conflicts? How can someone’s personality traits and disorders be explained in terms of sexual and aggressive drives or as disguised effects of unfulfilled wishes and childhood traumas? Behavioral How do we learn observable responses? How do we learn to fear particular objects or situations? What is the most effective way to alter our behavior, say to lose weight or quit smoking?

10 Contemporary Approaches to Psychology
Perspective Focus Sample Questions Cognitive How do we encode, process, store and retrieve information? How do we use information in remembering? Reasoning? Problem solving? Social-cultural How does behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures? How are we — as Africans, Asians, Australians or North Americans – alike as members of human family? As products of different environmental contexts, how do we differ?

11 Contemporary Approaches to Psychology
Because no individual approach may explain human thought and behavior exclusively, psychologists often take a more integrated approach, known as the Biopsychosocial Approach.

12 Contemporary Approaches to Psychology: Biopsychosocial Approach

13 Nature Vs. Nurture What is the “Nature-Nurture” controversy facing Psychology? Which factor do you feel is more influential on human thought and behavior? Do you feel they are equally influential?

14 Nature Vs. Nurture “Nature-Nurture” Issue: Psychological controversy
Debate of origin of personality traits “Nature” = Genes “Nurture” = Experiences

15 Nature Vs. Nurture Psychologists often debate the “Nature-Nurture” issue with these types of questions: How are we humans alike (because of our common biology and evolutionary history) and diverse (because of our differing environments)? Are gender differences biologically predisposed or socially constructed? Is children’s grammar mostly innate or formed by experience? How are differences in intelligence and personality influenced by heredity and environment? Are sexual behaviors more “pushed” by inner biology or “pulled” by external incentives? Should we treat psychological disorders – depression, for example – as disorders of the brain, disorders of thought, or both?

16 Review Briefly describe the 7 Contemporary Approaches to Psychology:
Biological Evolutionary Psychodynamic Behavioral Cognitive Humanistic Social-Cultural What is the “Nature-Nurture” Issue? What are some ways that psychologists may address this?

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