Psychobiological Perspective

Introversion is defined as a person who is exhausted with community encounter and choose to energize themselves by solitary. They are often confused with being shy, but they recommend having their alone time. In my opinion introversion is something that is learned about a person at an early age. It cannot be taught or learn once you get older. The psychodynamic perspectives consist in early childhood experiences and are referred as the unconscious mind that defines an individual personality. Referring back to the video, as an introvert she found herself wanting to read book instead of interacting with the fellow campers. Sigmung Fred believe that thing hidden in the unconscious mind of a child helps develop personality. The humanistic perspective is the belief that

Lifespan development is a scientific approach to questions about growth, change, and stability in physical, cognitive, social, and personality characteristics at all ages from conception to death (Feldman, 2014 Seventh Edition). In reading the chapter I found three theories very interesting evolutionary, cognitive, and psychodynamic. The reason I find evolutionary perspective because I feel as though this perspective or theory is the base of study. When we are born we have genetic make-up for two people with two family trees. The blending is sometimes a hard transition. We all have been around child and seen their parents’ characteristics in the child. Evolutionary perspective attributes to the genetic inheritance from our ancestors, contending that genes determine not only traits such as skin and eye color, but certain personality traits and social behaviors (Feldman, 2014 Seventh Edition). We all see and new edition in a family and sit and try and pick out which parent the child looks like. We are a very diverse place. The traits and genetic studies are a constant for new developments and updated current practices. Education on social norms of new populations are a must. As we learned throughout history change is a shock. We need to educate and adapt to the societal new comers. Problems occur in the lag between establishment of new members and educative process which has caused some havoc for community members. With more and more cultural differences and blending there

According to Ronald Comer, biological theorists view abnormal behavior as an illness brought about by malfunctioning parts of the brain. These malfunctioning parts can be brought around by a chemical imbalance as well as brain structure abnormalities. So, they tend to point the problem to the anatomy or the chemistry alone, adopting a purely medical perspective. The brain is made up of millions of tiny connections call synapse. In order for the biological process in the brain to work properly everything must be functioning perfectly. The brain runs on an all or none perspective, meaning if one small neuron isn’t firing properly, (the firing of the neurons is how the brain is charged to function) the neuron will die and stop working. This is the chemical outlook of mental illness, that mental illness could possibly be brought around by the misfiring of neurons, or the complete failure to fire that neuronal death could cause.

An approach is a point of view that includes certain suppositions about human conduct, for instance the way they work and which parts of them are deserving of study. There might be a few unique speculations inside an approach, however they all offer these basic beliefs. There are various brain science points of view and these points of view include diverse clarifications for human conduct. The two perspectives that shall be explored and compared is the biological and cognitive perspective.

In addition to the diagnosis of psychology there are perspectives and treatments that follow these. The first perspective being the behavioral perspective and following that would be the psychoanalytic/psychodynamic perspectives. The third perspective of psychology follows suit with the biological perspective and the fourth being the cognitive. These perspectives all take a different route on explaining psychology and were developed by a number of different characters throughout history. To start off, the behavioral perspective emphasizes the study of one’s behavior and the role that they play in an environment.

Biological, psychological, and sociocultural viewpoints have been developed in an attempt to explain schizophrenia. All three viewpoints point out various factors that may contribute to the development of the disorder.

Focus is on the unconscious mind and its influence over conscious behavior (such as nail biting, nervous rituals)

In the following section I am going to evaluate two approaches in psychology like being a reasonable assumptions about human behaviour and development for me, although most psychologists might agree that no one perspective is correct or incorrect.

In my opinion, the psychodynamic theory makes most sense because it gives the background of sexual drive as far as the id, ego, and superego. Freud came up with a theory which explained the desire to want to do something and having balance. With this theory, most child molesters use their id and not their ego. They think about their wants and needs and not what is morally right. Also, cognitive distortion makes sense too because it breaks down the thoughts of a child molester. According to the research, molesters think if a person did not resist, then they wanted it and a lot of sexual offenders think like that by taking it as consent sex when it is not. For example, if a child just lays there and do not say stop they think the child must want

I too agree with the sociocultural view. The biological and psychological perspectives appear to explain behavior predetermined by the way our brains are formed, or predict behavior according to different situations. The sociocultural perspective seems to give way for a persons ability to adjust behavior and be open minded to other types of behavior that does not come from the say cultural background than

In regards to the behavioural and biological perspective obesity as a health issue is defined by

Early classical, biological and psychological theories have helped shape the burgeoning world of criminology. Many of the ideas they held were unique, however, some key principles are still in use by there modern counterparts.

As an Occupational Therapist there are a number of things that can be used and considered while working. One perspective that would be useful when working with a patient is the psychoanalytic perspective. This is when, “people move through a series of stages in which they confront conflicts between biological drives and social expectations. How these conflicts are resolved determines the person’s ability to learn, to get along with others, and to cope with anxiety” (Berk, 2010, p.12). In this case as an Occupational Therapist I could use this perspective to see how the patients I work with adjust and cope with learning certain activities. This perspective along with the social learning theory where people learn through imitation or observational learning

This essay will outline and compare both biological and behavioural perspectives on human behaviour. The history, major discoveries and theories will be discussed along with some of the most influential theorists in each of these two areas of psychology. This essay will also compare the two areas strengths and weaknesses in the field of psychology.

The psychological perspective views the illness as being caused by underlying conflicts that are rooted in our brains. “Freud believes that events in our childhood can have a significant impact on our behavior as adults. He also believed that people have little free will to make choices in life. Instead, our behavior is determined by the unconscious mind and childhood experiences.” (McLeod 2007) Through this thinking, DID is something that is caused by some underlying cause that the person is unaware of. With DID, it is brought on by a certain event or experience and not something that makes its appearance out of nowhere without a cause. People can deal with DID in adulthood and it may not have anything to do with their childhood. One of the