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Phsychology Perpsect
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Neuroscience | Focus: How the body and brain create emotions, memories, and sensory experiences |
| Evolutionary | Focus: How nature selects traits that promote the perpetuation of one's genes |
| Behavior Genetics | Focus: How much our genes, and our environment, influence our individual differences |
| Psychodynamic | Focus: how behavior springs from unconscious drives and conflicts |
| Behavioral | Focus: How we learn observable responses |
| Cognitive | Focus: How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information |
| Social-Cultural | Focus: How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures |
| Humanistic | Stress individual choice and free will, contrasting with deterministic behaviorists |