1 / 12

Bio-psychological & Socio- culturalist Approach

Bio-psychological & Socio- culturalist Approach . Six Approaches. Bio-psychological Approach. Six Approaches. Nature vs. Nurture. Which is the stronger influence on you ?. Bio-psychological Approach. Behavior as the result of nervous system functions & biology Nature vs Nurture

loman
Télécharger la présentation

Bio-psychological & Socio- culturalist Approach

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Bio-psychological & Socio-culturalist Approach Six Approaches

  2. Bio-psychological Approach Six Approaches

  3. Nature vs. Nurture Which is the stronger influence on you?

  4. Bio-psychological Approach • Behavior as the result of nervous system functions & biology • Nature vs Nurture • Ivan Pavlov & Charles Darwin • Advantages • Using biological aspects of behavior can help develop treatment (drugs) for some disorders • Disadvantages • Does not take in account environmental influences

  5. Bio-psychological (Neurobiological) • Nervous System: • Responsible for our behavior; Specifically abnormal and immediate responses • Genes also play a part • Anatomy/Biology • Solely responsible for human behavior. • Criticisms • Ignores mental processes • Explains too little of human behavior, rejects environmental influences

  6. Sociocultural Approach Six Approaches

  7. Socio-culturalism Approach • Behavior viewed as strongly influenced by the rules and expectations of specific social groups (society) or cultures • Albert Bandura • Different cultures have different: • Beliefs, manners, normative behaviors, and practices • Within these varying cultures around the world, different societies exist • Our culture teaches us BEHAVIOR • Advantages • Helps to understand different cultures and to understand social influences on behavior • Disadvantages • Does not look at biology or self

  8. Sociocultural Psychology • Examines how cultural and political (religious) experience effect our everyday life • Gender influences of behavior • Job opportunities to influence people’s goals and ambitions

  9. Sociocultural Psychology • Cultural Values/Political Systems: How norms and social influences affect behavior

  10. Sociocultural Psychology • Ambition/Goals/Values: • Environments influence on one’s long-term ambitions. • Criticisms: • Underestimated personal and overestimated social influences on our behavior. • Makes broad generalizations about ethnic groups and cultures.

  11. American Psychological Association (APA) • Founded in 1892 • the governing body of all research not conducted by universities.

  12. G. Stanley Hall • First president of the APA, established the first psychological lab in the U.S. in 1883, at Johns Hopkins University. • Started the American Psychological Journal (1887) now the American Journal of Psychology.

More Related