The Five Major Perspectives In The Field Of Psychology

The Field of Psychology
In the beginning of psychology it was a unique type of philosophy with a subjective or theoretical way of thinking about human beings and their behavior and mental process. Physiology is the study of how all body processes function, including the electrical and chemical processes necessary for nervous system communication. There are five major perspectives in psychology starting with biological, psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive and last is a humanistic approach. The biological perspective can be exercised in figuring out how disorders like schizophrenia develop from genetic roots. It largely details in plans of focusing at psychological issues by learning the basis for animal and human behavior. The psychodyanmic perspective is depended on theories in relation to the interrelationship of mixed parts of the mind as they relate …show more content…
Sigmund Freud introduced the psychodyanmic approach and also believed that the early childhood experiences will not only influence but is at the root of the our present behavior in our life. Behavioral psychology is the study of the relationship or in other words the pathway between our minds and between our behavior. There are four recognized sub-disciplines of behavioral psychology: applied behavior analysis, behavior therapy, cognitive therapy and cognitive-behavior therapy. The reason why cognitive psychology is so important is because it gives us help to analyze an understand the human thought process and how we gain, process, and store information. Consciousness, thinking, memory, language, attention, and perception all sum up a human's mind and cognitive psychology purpose is to understand the method of each individual element. The whole study of a person as a whole is humanistic perspective. The humanistic approach has been applied to a few areas of psychology and its contributions are in some