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There are three key premises to this perspective. First, how people think, feel, and wish determines their actions. Second, these mental events happen outside a person’s conscious awareness. And third, a person most likely will not know the chain of psychological events that helped them come to their thoughts, feelings, actions, or behaviors. Psychodynamic perspective basically means that people behave because of an inner force that the person has little control over and are not aware of it, (Kowalski & Westen, 2006). * Behavioral perspective: The perspective pioneered by John Watson and
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Cognitive psychologists are interested in how memory works, how people solve problems and make decisions, and similar questions. The primary metaphor originally underlying the cognitive perspective was the mind as computer. In recent years, many cognitive psychologists have turned to the brain itself as a source of metaphors. The primary method of the cognitive perspective is experimental”, (Kowalski & Westen, 2009). Cognitive perspective basically means because of what we know, understand, and think about the world determines our behavior. * Evolutionary perspective: This perspective is based on the theory that people behave a certain way because of our ancestors. Humans had to evolve and adapt in order to survive and reproduce according to their environment. The evolutionary perspective considers how the nervous system had to evolve into what it is today. The nervous system is a state of complexity and after years of research scientists have come to believe that because of the interaction between biological inheritance and the environment determines our behavior.
Cognitive psychologists are interested in how memory works, how people solve problems and make decisions, and similar questions. The primary metaphor originally underlying the cognitive perspective was the mind as computer. In recent years, many cognitive psychologists have turned to the brain itself as a source of metaphors. The primary method of the cognitive perspective is experimental”, (Kowalski & Westen, 2009). Cognitive perspective basically means because of what we know, understand, and think about the world determines our behavior. * Evolutionary perspective: This perspective is based on the theory that people behave a certain way because of our ancestors. Humans had to evolve and adapt in order to survive and reproduce according to their environment. The evolutionary perspective considers how the nervous system had to evolve into what it is today. The nervous system is a state of complexity and after years of research scientists have come to believe that because of the interaction between biological inheritance and the environment determines our behavior.