Approaches to Psychology

• Phrenology 


  the practice of examining bumps on a persons skull to determine that persons intellect and character traits
• Dualism


  the idea that the mind and body are not acting together but separately and distinct
• Functionalism 


  studies how animals and people adapt to their environment
• Inheritable Traits 


  the study of how hereditary or biological traits passed from parents to children, influence abilities, character, and behavior
• Gestalt 


  study of how sensations are assembled into perceptual experience
• Psychoanalyst 


  psychologist who studies how unconscious motives and conflicts determine human behavior
• Behaviourism 


  the study of how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in the environment
• Humanism 


  a psychologist who believes that each person has freedom in directing his or her future and achieving personal growth
• Cognitism 


  a psychologist who studies how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how though process influence our behavior
• Psychobiology 


  a psychologist who studies how physical and chemical changes in our bodies influence our behavior
• Sociocultural Psychology 


  studying the influence of cultural and ethnic similarities and differences in behavior as social functioning