PSYCHOLOGY
APPROACHES
The cognitive approach
Thee biological approach focuses examines how we
on how our genes, hormones, and process, store, and use
nervous system interact with
our environments to influence information and how
learning, personality, memory, this information
motivation, emotions, and coping influences what we
techniques. attend to, perceive,
learn, remember,
believe, and feel
The psychoanalytic
approach stresses the
influence of unconscious
fears, desires, and
motivations on thoughts,
behaviors, and the
development of
personality traits and
psychological problems
later in life.
The behavioral approach
studies how organisms
learn new behaviors
or modify existing ones,
depending on whether
events in their
environments reward or
punish these behaviors.
APPROACHES
The cognitive approach
Thee biological approach focuses examines how we
on how our genes, hormones, and process, store, and use
nervous system interact with
our environments to influence information and how
learning, personality, memory, this information
motivation, emotions, and coping influences what we
techniques. attend to, perceive,
learn, remember,
believe, and feel
The psychoanalytic
approach stresses the
influence of unconscious
fears, desires, and
motivations on thoughts,
behaviors, and the
development of
personality traits and
psychological problems
later in life.
The behavioral approach
studies how organisms
learn new behaviors
or modify existing ones,
depending on whether
events in their
environments reward or
punish these behaviors.
