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-emphasizes bodily events & changes associated w/ actions, feelings & thoughts
- physical events
interact with events in the external environment to produce perceptions, memories, and behavior
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biological
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-how the environment and experience affect a person’s or animal’s actions
-Doesn't invoke the mind
- can observe & measure directly: acts and events taking place in the environment
Learning/ behaviorism
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-mental processes in perception, memory, language, problem solving, and other areas of behavior
-people’s thoughts and explanations affect their actions, feelings, and choices
- emotions, motivations, and insight
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Cognitive
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-focuses on social and cultural forces outside the individual
-How groups affect attitudes and behavior
Sociocultural
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-unconscious dynamics within the individual, such as inner forces, conflicts, or the movement of instinctual energy
-it differs radically from the other approaches in its language, methods, and standards of
acceptable evidence
-Emphasis on relations between the sexes, the power of sexuality, and the universal fear of death
Psychodynamic
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-how genetically influenced behavior that was functional or adaptive during our evolutionary
past may be reflected in many of our present behaviors, mental processes, and
traits
Evolutionary
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