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Behavioral:
• Focuses on the study and alteration of people’s behaviors including
actions, emotions, and thoughts.
• Relies on the theory that behavioral and mental disorders can be
improved through behavior-modifying techniques.
• Four Recognized Disciplines:
 Applied Behavior Analysis, Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Therapy, and
Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
Biological:
• The study of the psychological basis of behavior.
• Mainly concerned with the relationship between Psychological processes
and underlying Psychological events.
• Focus is the function of the brain
Cognitive:
• Revolves around the notion that if we want to know what makes people
tick then we need to understand them and their thoughts and their
behaviors.
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In all, Cognitive Psychology refers to the study of human mental
processes and their role in thinking, feeling, and behaving.
Evolutionary:
• Focuses on how evolution has shaped the mind and behavior
• Has roots in cognitive psychology and evolutionary biology as well as
being closely linked to socio-biology
• Explains memory, perception, and language
Humanistic:
• Studies an individual person as a whole, their subjective experience
• A look at human behavior through the eyes of the observer, as well as
through the eyes of who is behaving (2 perspectives)
• Originated as a rejection of behavioral psychology
Psychodynamic:
• Also known as dynamic psychology
• Emphasis on study of forces that influence human behavior. feelings, and
emotions
• Deals with conscious and unconscious motivation
Socio-Cultural:
• Based on the idea that society and culture shape cognition.
• Accounts for more than the individual
• What Shapes A Persons Identity and Reality:
 Social Customs, Beliefs, Values, Language