Approaches

Front 1

Define the Cognitive approach

Back 1

"Attempts to explain our behaviour through understanding mental processes. Information received from our senses e.g. touch taste smell sight is processed by the brain and that influences how we behave directly and can be used to justify all behaviour and even mental illnesses such as autism. It focuses on how brain inputs, stores and outputs information alongside how it understands it.

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Define the Developmental approach

Back 2

"Explores our cognitive, emotional and behaviour as an ongoing process and that our behaviour is a combination of nature and nurture. In developmental approach there are views that growing up it is a staged process that requires different skills or that childhood development is simply dependent on our experiences.

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Define the Physiological approach

Back 3

"Explores our behaviour through biological and neurological processes that also look at the structure and function of our brain and nervous system. Looks at hormones and genetics. Can help us develop medicine for certain psychological illnesses e.g. depression and fluoxetine (ref Lustman)

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Define the Social approach

Back 4

"Our behaviour is affected by actual or implied presence of others. Do we imitate others (Social Learning Theory) what we conform to and why. Explores how we judge individuals based on appearance and how we identify with them.

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Define the Induvidual differences approach

Back 5

"That our behaviour is affected by our unique characteristics and differences rather then similarities. Explores the concept that we all have different process e.g. cognitive, social and physiological and we cannot be grouped.

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Define the Psychodynamic approach

Back 6

That our behaviour is affected by unconscious motives and all behaviour has a cause. Adult feelings can be rooted from childhood experiences. Explores concepts that we have an ID, EGO and SUPEREGO which are all in constant conflict. Unconscious processes such as dreams and phobias are all linked to these. We do not have direct control over these but can learn to understand them more. Some psychologists use hypnosis to access the unconscious e.g Thigpen and clekly.

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Define the Behavioural approach

Back 7

Human behavior is learned, thus all behavior can be unlearned and newbehaviors learned in its place. We are a blank state. Behaviorism is concerned primarily with the observable and measurable aspects of human behavior. Therefore when behaviors become unacceptable, they can be unlearned. Behaviorism views development as a continuous process in which children play a relatively passive role.