Psychology is a a complex science which studies the mind and behaviour of an individual. Psychologists have established 5 approaches to understand the human mind and behaviour: the behaviour approach, which only focuses on the different behaviours of each individual, , the cognitive approach, which concentrates on the way the mind processes knowledge, memory and language learning, after, the psychodynamic approach, which studies the impact of emotions and feelings on a person’s mind or behaviour, then on, the biological approach which analyses the genes and neurological functions in our brain which can explain our behaviour, and finally the humanistic approach which studies the person in whole, not just the mind of the person.
This essay will take a particular interest in the strengths and weakness of 2 psychological approaches, the behaviour approach and the cognitive approach.
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The main issue about this approach is that it is quite mechanical. The idea of this approach is that all human inputs an information based on our environment, process this information and then outputs a behaviour.Critics made suggests that first of all, that theory compares humans to computer and that there is a distinction between both as human express feelings and emotions and computers don’t. A critic has been made by Skinner where he believes that the only external stimuli should be studied and should be measurable. The mental process between the input and the output does not exist as it cannot be measured and seen.A humanistic psychologist, Carl Rogers believes that the use of cognitive experiments have a low ecological validity and it creates an artificial environment due to the controls over variables. Lastly, the cognitive approach does not always recognise physical (chromosome and hormones) and environmental factors (behaviourism) in determining
This essay will take a particular interest in the strengths and weakness of 2 psychological approaches, the behaviour approach and the cognitive approach.
It would be quite interesting to start this essay with the …show more content…
The main issue about this approach is that it is quite mechanical. The idea of this approach is that all human inputs an information based on our environment, process this information and then outputs a behaviour.Critics made suggests that first of all, that theory compares humans to computer and that there is a distinction between both as human express feelings and emotions and computers don’t. A critic has been made by Skinner where he believes that the only external stimuli should be studied and should be measurable. The mental process between the input and the output does not exist as it cannot be measured and seen.A humanistic psychologist, Carl Rogers believes that the use of cognitive experiments have a low ecological validity and it creates an artificial environment due to the controls over variables. Lastly, the cognitive approach does not always recognise physical (chromosome and hormones) and environmental factors (behaviourism) in determining