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Behavioral Perspective |
Bottom line: Behaviors that cannot be accurately or reliably measured cannot be included in the scientific study of behavior. |
Something that Cannot be studied |
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Behavioral Perspective |
Advantages:Less difficult to assess the treatment |
What behaviors show therapist |
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Behavioral Perspective |
Disadvantages: Deeper knowledge of the behavior is seriously limited when we are not willing to consider private events |
What cannot be known by certain events |
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Psychoanalytic approach Bottom line |
Bottom line: intra psychic conflict is a given, oberserable behaviors are a reflection of how well that individual copes with that conflict |
How individual copes with conflict |
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Psychoanalytic approach Advantages |
Advantage: defense mechanisms, view of psychic determinism |
Some sort of mechanism |
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Psychoanalytic approach Disadvantages |
Disadvantages: skewed sample, pessimistic insight, too much emphasis on sex and aggression, deterministic |
Aggression pessimistic |
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Cognitive perspective Bottom line |
Bottom line: our thoughts about particular evens meditate and influence our responses to those events |
What do thoughts do to certain events |
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Cognitive perspective Advantages |
Advantage: directly address private events including attitudes, beliefs and expectations |
What does this do with recollection of past |
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Cognitive perspective Disadvantages |
Disadvantages: all knowledge of private events is based on self report; this makes it more difficult to assess the effectiveness of the intervention |
What does this negatively do to person trying to understand event |
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Biological approach Bottom line |
Bottom line: role of neurotransmitters, localization of brain function, heritability of traits |
Transmitters |
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Biological approach Advantages |
Advantage: allows a more direct application of research results to emotional distress in humans; implications for treatment, intervention and prevention |
Allows more direct what to humans |
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Biological approach Disadvantages |
Disadvantages: the suspension of responsibility, esp. With regard to criminal conduct |
The suspension of what |
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Humanisim Bottom line |
Bottom line: focus is on the individuals capacity for self fulfilment and personal growth via self awareness and consistently responsible decision making |
Focuses on what about humans growth |
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Humanisim Advantages |
Advantage: optimistic, non deterministic, focus on private events |
Optimistic or pessimistic |
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Humanisim Disadvantages |
Disadvantages: limited usefulness with clinical pops, focus on private events |
Focus on what |
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The gestalt perspective Bottom line |
Bottom line: focus is on the human tendency to integrate the elements of a situation into a meaningful patterns |
What do humans Intergrate in situations |
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The gestalt perspective Advantages |
Advantage: directly addresses the individuals version of reality and the human tendency to impose order on chaos |
Directly addresses what |
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The gestalt perspective Disadvantages |
Disadvantages: directly addresses private events |
Directly addresses what |
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Social learning theory Bottom line |
Bottom line: beliefs, expectations, history, attitudes, values, imitation, observation, role models |
What people believe |
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Social learning theory Advantages |
Advantage: eclectic, consideration of private events |
Consideration of what |
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Social learning theory Disadvantages |
Disadvantages: consideration of private events |
Consideration of what |