comparison

• 👧🏼 views on development - psychodynamic

  • psychosexual stages
  • early childhood experiences
  • fixations due to unresolved conflicts
• 👧🏼 views on development - cognitive

  • progressive
  • mental processes change over time
• 👧🏼 views on development - behaviourist

  • learned from environment
  • no stages
• 👧🏼 views on development - SLT

  • no stages
  • learned via observation and imitation
• 👧🏼 views on development - humanistic

  • driven by need to reach self-actualisation
  • continuous personal growth
• 👧🏼 views on development - biological

  • maturation is biologically determined
  • influenced by genes, brain maturation and hormonal changes
• 🌿 nature vs nurture - biological

  • strongly nature
  • determined by genetics, neurochemistry and evolution
• 🌿 nature vs nurture - behaviourist

  • strongly nurture
  • behaviour is learned through experience and environment
• 🌿 nature vs nurture - SLT

  • mainly nurture
  • recognises biological factors
• 🌿 nature vs nurture - cognitive

  • both
  • capacity for thought (nature)
  • development of schemas is dependent on experience (nurture)
• 🌿 nature vs nurture - psychodynamic

  • both
  • biological drives (nature)
  • parenting influences conflict resolution (nurture)
• 🌿 nature vs nurture - humanistic

  • both
  • focuses on personal experience and self-determination
• 🤝🏼 reductionism vs holism - behaviourist

  environmental reductionism
• 🤝🏼 reductionism vs holism - biological

  biological reductionism
• 🤝🏼 reductionism vs holism - SLT

  partly reductionist
• 🤝🏼 reductionism vs holism - cognitive

  machine reductionism
• 🤝🏼 reductionism vs holism - psychodynamic

  reductionist
• 🤝🏼 reductionism vs holism - humanistic

  strongly holistic
• 💪 determinism vs free will - behaviourist

  hard environmental determinism
• 💪 determinism vs free will - biological

  biological determinism
• 💪 determinism vs free will - SLT

  soft determinism
• 💪 determinism vs free will - psychodynamic

  psychic determinism
• 💪 determinism vs free will - cognitive

  soft determinism
• 💪 determinism vs free will - humanistic

  free will
• 🔬 scientific method - biological

  • highly scientific
  • uses objective measures
• 🔬 scientific method - behaviourist

  • scientific
  • lab experiments
  • focuses on observable behaviour
• 🔬 scientific method - SLT

  • mostly scientific
  • controlled studies
  • inference of mental states
• 🔬 scientific method - cognitive

  • scientific
  • controlled methods
  • uses inference
• 🔬 scientific method - psychodynamic

  • unscientific
  • subjective interpretation
• 🔬 scientific method - humanistic

  • not scientific
  • subjective experiences
  • emphasises qualitative methods
• 🎯 applications - behaviourist

  • treatment of phobias
  • education
  • behaviour modification
• 🎯 applications - SLT

  • media influence
  • criminal behaviour
  • role models
• 🎯 applications - cognitive

  • CBT
  • education
  • AI
• 🎯 applications - biological

  • drug therapies
  • genetic testing
• 🎯 applications - psychodynamic

  • psychoanalysis
  • childhood trauma
• 🎯 applications - humanistic

  • client-centered therapy
  • personal development in work