Occupational Psychology is the study of behaviour of people at work and it normally covers application of social psychology to mental health, safety, training of employees,etc…… It has different major theoretical approaches and this report is going to analyse three of them including Psychodynamic approach, cognitive approach and behaviour approach.
For Psychodynamic Approach, it was founded by Sigmund Freud and it holds two major parts in terms of unconscious psychological processes and the past experiences especially in early childhood. It related to the work of Freud that he explored different patient’s unconscious thoughts and emotions and he found that it is a type of psychotherapy so they are better to know themselves. Also, he had three …show more content…
There are two assumptions in this approach, the first assumption is that all behaviour is learnt from the environment and people can be trained to act in a certain way so the external environment affects our behaviour and we learn different behaviours through classical conditioning. The second assumption is concerned with observable behaviour, behaviourists prefer not to study the existence of emotions as only extern behaviour can be objectively measured. (Simplypsychology.org. …show more content…
Both approach are used in studies throughout many discipline and they have both strengths and limitations. For qualitative approach, it is useful in the early stage of a research for any topics when the researcher is not sure what will be researched and what they can focus on. This kind of approach can help them because it does not need a strict design and it gives freedom for researcher to get what need. Also, it allows researchers to respond to user data as it arises during research and this approach requires flexibility. Furthermore, they can look for trends in the data, when they hear a respond from just one interviewee is not objective, from two, it is just a coincidence but from three, this is a trend that show different people’s interest and then the researchers can reflect his situation to their company to guide product development and do business decisions and so on. In workplace,
For Psychodynamic Approach, it was founded by Sigmund Freud and it holds two major parts in terms of unconscious psychological processes and the past experiences especially in early childhood. It related to the work of Freud that he explored different patient’s unconscious thoughts and emotions and he found that it is a type of psychotherapy so they are better to know themselves. Also, he had three …show more content…
There are two assumptions in this approach, the first assumption is that all behaviour is learnt from the environment and people can be trained to act in a certain way so the external environment affects our behaviour and we learn different behaviours through classical conditioning. The second assumption is concerned with observable behaviour, behaviourists prefer not to study the existence of emotions as only extern behaviour can be objectively measured. (Simplypsychology.org. …show more content…
Both approach are used in studies throughout many discipline and they have both strengths and limitations. For qualitative approach, it is useful in the early stage of a research for any topics when the researcher is not sure what will be researched and what they can focus on. This kind of approach can help them because it does not need a strict design and it gives freedom for researcher to get what need. Also, it allows researchers to respond to user data as it arises during research and this approach requires flexibility. Furthermore, they can look for trends in the data, when they hear a respond from just one interviewee is not objective, from two, it is just a coincidence but from three, this is a trend that show different people’s interest and then the researchers can reflect his situation to their company to guide product development and do business decisions and so on. In workplace,