Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Mary Ainsworth, Agreeableness, Observational Learning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Jackson

Document Summary

Structuralism: emphasized the analysis of immediate experience into basic elements. Functionalism: emphasized the function or purpose of behaviour and consciousness. Psychoanalysis: theory of personality and method of psychotherapy, emphasized unconscious motives and conflicts. Biological perspective: emphasizes bodily events and changes associated with actions and feelings. Evolutionary psychology: emphasizing human evolutionary mechanisms that may help explain human commonalities in cognitive, development, emotion, social practices, and other areas of behaviour. Learning perspective: emphasizes how the environment and the experience affect a person"s or animal"s actions; includes behaviourism and social cognitive learning theories. Behaviourism: an approach to psychology that emphasizes the study of observable behaviour and the role of the environment and prior experience as determinants of behaviour. Cognitive perspective: emphasizes mental processes in perception, memory, language, problem solving, and other areas of behaviour. Sociocultural perspective: emphasizes social and cultural influences on behaviour. Psychodynamic perspective: emphasizes unconscious dynamics within the individual, such as inner focus, conflicts, or movement of instinctual energy.