Introductory
"an outlook or system of thought attaching prime importance to human rather than divine or supernatural matters. Humanist beliefs stress the potential value and goodness of human beings, emphasize common human needs, and seek solely rational ways of solving human problems." Cognitive: Simply enough, cognition refers to thinking; obviously, the general applications to conscious reasoning are things like: doing taxes, playing chess, etc, however, thought also takes on many subtler forms. Such forms as interpreting sensory input, guiding physical actions, and empathizing with others. Psychoanalytic: Psychoanalytic theory is the theory of personality organization and the dynamics of personality development that guides psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology. Psychoanalysis is a set of psychological and psycho therapeutic theories and associated techniques, created by Austrian physician Sigmund Freud and stemming partly from the clinical work of Josef Breuer and others. Socio-cultural: Combining social and cultural factors;
Behavioral neuroscience, also known as biological psychology, biopsychology, or psychobiology is the application of the principles of biology (in particular neurobiology), to the study of physiological, genetic, and developmental mechanisms of behavior in humans and non-human animals. Behavioral: Behavioral Psychology aims to understand our actions by analyzing the way that we outwardly behave. In this section, discover behavioral psychology and how it can be applied in treatment... Evolutionary: Evolutionary psychology is a theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain useful mental and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—as adaptations, i.e., as the functional products of natural selection. |