PSYC 110N Week 1 Assignment Psychological Perspectives Comparison- Chamberlain College of Nursing

Psychological Perspectives Comparison
Key People/Theorists Main Ideas Strengths Weaknesses
Cognitive  Ulric Neisser  Perception of  Can be explained in  People do not react
Perspective (founder) humans more depth with how to stimuli
 Neisser writes  Attention our minds function  Hypothetical
“Cognitive  Learning  Organize information constructs
Psychology”  Memory from both  Not visible (purely
 1967- beginning of  Concept formation external/internal observational)
cognitive  Reasoning/judgemen environments  Ethical issues
psychology t  Input/output (Georgia State
 Known as the father  Decision-making  Consistent University, 2017)
of cognitive  Problem solving  Variable control
psychology (Parvin,  Language processing (Georgia State
2012)  Categorizing University, 2017)
 Aaron T. Beck  Conceptual
 Albert Ellis representation
 Donald  Choice behavior
Meichenbaum  Shared processing
 Three major theories (Todd, 2021)
1. Albert Ellis’  Concentrates on
Rational people think,
Emotive comprehend
Behavior information, and
Therapy (REBT) understand how the
2. Aaron Beck’s world works
Cognitive (Feldman, 2019)
Therapy (CT)
3. Donald
Meichenbaum’s
Cognitive
Behavior
Therapy (CBT)