Grand Teton
National Park
Journal 9/25/13
Answer the following questions:
1. Analyze one of your friend’s personality but
not your best friend.
2. Are they outgoing? Quiet? Trustworthy?
Dependable? Moody?
3. How do you know?
Journal &
Discussion
Therapy
Sessions??
Psychological
Perspectives
Exit Ticket
Today’s Objective: IWBAT identify and apply
psychological perspectives to life situations
Table of Contents
Pick up where you left off yesterday
Perspectives
Psychological Perspectives
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Psychodynamic perspective
Evolutionary perspective
Biological perspective
Behavioral perspective
Cognitive perspective
Humanistic perspective
Social cultural perspective
The Psychoanalysis Perspective
aka psychodynamic perspective
Behavior springs from unconscious drives
(motivation, desires, etc) and conflicts.
Example of a psychodynamic question:
• How can someone’s personality traits and
disorders be explained in terms of sexual and
aggressive drives (desires)?
Evolutionary Perspective
How the natural selection of traits promoted the
survival of genes.
Example of question:
How does evolution influence behavior
tendencies?
Biological Perspective
How the body and brain enable emotions,
memories and sensory experiences; how genes
combine with environment to influence
individual differences.
Examples of question from this perspective:
How are messages transmitted within the body
and how does that effect behavior?
Behavioral Perspective
How we learn observable responses.
Example question:
• How do we learn fear of particular objects?
Cognitive Perspective
How we encode, process, store and retrieve
information.
Example of question:
How do we use information in remembering?
How do we problem solve?
Humanistic Perspective
How we meet our needs for love and
acceptance and achieve self fulfillment.
Example question:
• How can we work toward fulfilling our
potential? How can we overcome barriers to
our personal growth?
Social Cultural Perspective
How behavior and thinking vary across
situations and cultures.
Example question:
How are we humans alike as members of one
human family? (I must say, we are a pretty
awesome family).
Quick Write Brainstorm
• With your face partner, come up with a list of
5 common problems that teenagers have and
write them down. You both need them for the
next activity.
– Example: my boyfriend/girlfriend just broke up
with me.
– Example: I get angry really easily, especially when
teachers call me out in class.
NOW: The class needs to get into TWO
GROUPS
• Then divide into 5 groups within your new
group.
• One side will be the psychologists and the
other will be the subjects.
• Each of the five groups will represent a
perspective and “treat” the subjects with their
made up problems.
Chapter 2 Personality reading and notes
due Friday!
Jonathan is a really outgoing and popular
student. Everyone seems to like him. If you
were analyzing his personality from a
psychodynamic perspective, what would
say is the cause of his “outgoing” personality?
A. His genes
B. His older brother was popular and outgoing and
Jonathan learned by watching him.
C. Being popular makes him feel loved
D. He is unconsciously motivated to be loved by
others because his parents left him at an early age
and he didn’t feel loved.
2 Week Outlook
9/9/13 – 9/20/13
Mon 9/9
Tues 9/10
Wed 9/11
Thurs 9/12
Fri 9/13
Wed 9/18
Thurs 9/19
Fri 9/20
My Bag
Mon 9/16
Tues 9/17
Psychology Myths
and
Survivor’s Dilemma