Explain The Seven Psychological Perspectives

Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and its function’s affecting ones behaviour. In Psychology, there are many approaches to study the mind and the behaviour of a Human being. There are seven perspectives, they all benefit in different ways when studying the mind and behaviour of a human being. The seven perspectives each have their strengths and weaknesses. Out of the seven perspectives not one of them is correct. The seven perspectives are; Biological, Behaviourism, Cognitive, Humanistic, Psychodynamic, Sociocultural and Evolutionary. The Biological approach led psychologists to believe that the way one’s behaves is due to their genes and physiology. The biological approach is the only approach that examines feelings, thoughts …show more content…
The main focus on the behaviourist perspective is the behaviour of the human being, it is not primarily concerned with internal links like thoughts, emotions etc. One’s feeling and emotions and all other internal links should be explained through behavioural terms. In a behaviourists eyes when one is born they are a ‘tabula rasa’, and one’s environment has an effect on a person’s free will which contributes to someone’s behaviour. The behaviour of a human being can be altered by one’s environment and this is where classical and operant conditioning are involved in the behaviour of a human being but also the behaviour of an animal as in the behaviouristic approach there is hardly any difference between the learning that takes place in humans and that in other animals. The behaviour of a human is a result to a stimulus. John Watson described psychology and it is, “To predict, given the stimulus, what reaction will take place; or, given the reaction, state what the situation or stimulus is that has caused the reaction” (1930, Behaviourism, p.