1. The 7 Psychological Approaches (Perspectives) Why do we do that? Depends on who you ask

2. Neuroscience/Biological Ideas set forth by Roger Sperry & Michael Gazzaniga (split brains) behavior is governed by physiological responses (changes in brain chemistry, brain structure, nervous system, hormones etc)

3. Psychodynamic/Psychoanalytic Ideas set forth by Sigmund Freud Focuses on the ideas that: Your early childhood plays the biggest role in shaping your personality These childhood experiences have been repressed into your unconscious mind

4. Evolutionary Believe that people change or continue behavior in order to improve their chance to survive and therefore reproduce Based on Charles Darwin’s theory of survival of the fittest (natural selection)

5. Humanistic Ideas set forth by Carl Rogers & Abraham Maslow (hierarchy of needs) Focuses on an individual’s free will and reaching one’s fullest potential Believes that behavior is determined by a person’s capacity to choose how to act (impacted by one’s self esteem)

6. Behavioral Our behavior is based on what we have LEARNED! The importance of the external environment in shaping behavior Albert Bandura (Social Learning Theory; learning by observing others and modeling) Ivan Pavlov (Classical conditioning; learned responses by association) B.F. Skinner (Operant conditioning; learned responses by rewards & punishments)

7. Socio-Cultural Ideas set forth by Stanley Milgram (Obedience) & Soloman Asch (conformity) Explains behavior based on your society, socio-economic status, religion, community

8. Cognitive Ideas set forth by Jean Piaget (child development) Focuses on mental processes; how we encode, process (interpret), store, retrieve information & problem solve Believe that behavior is partially governed by the ways we think and assess the world

9. Review Biological (Neuroscience) Behavior can be understood by describing underlying biochemical and neurological causes Brain, neurochemicals, genes Behavioral Interested in directly observable behaviors that are the result of external stimuli Reinforcement or punishment Cognitive Cognitive psychologists study thoughts and processes (language, thought, and memory) Our thoughts Humanistic Views behavior as a product of free will and opposed the determinism of behaviorism and psychoanalysis I choose Psychodynamic (Psychoanalytic) Human behavior is primarily determined by unconscious processes. Stresses the importance of early experiences in determining later behavior problems Events from distant past; unconscious Social-Cultural Human behavior is largely the result of our social environments. Environment Evolutionary Belief that our thoughts and behaviors are the result of evolutionary selection pressures Natural selection