It’s one thing to propose the existence of a primary memory system. It’s something else again to find a primary memory system located in the dorsolateral frontal cortex of the brain (Pg. 31). Cognitive psychologists used localization to determine what areas of the brain enable functioning. Research helps understand the states of consciousness, sensory experiences, emotions, motivations, and more (Willingham, 2007).
In general to researchers, it’s the study of relationships between behavior and any other body functioning; a link between behavior and the brain or even behavior and the mind. It looks at the influence of hormones, genes, the brain, and the central nervous system which ultimately explains the way we think, feel, and behave. When we speak of “Nature vs. Nurture, biological psychology teams up with “nature”. Foremost, biological psychology uses the “nature approach and applies it to the understanding of the psychological bases for learning and memory, emotionality, and mental and behavior disorders. This is how scientist have been able to come up with medication to treat mental illnesses like depression, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and schizophrenia.
Physiology: how the nervous system and hormones work, how the brain functions, how changes in structure and/or function can affect behavior. For example, we could ask how prescribed drugs to treat depression affect behavior through their interaction with the nervous system. 3. Investigation of inheritance: what an animal inherits from its parents, mechanisms of inheritance (genetics). For example, we might want to know whether high intelligence is inherited from one generation to the next.
The idea behind this was to use 'talking therapy' to bring past memories from the unconscious to the conscious. The unconscious is when you are doing or thinking something without being alert or aware that you are doing it. Along the idea of the unconscious Freud also developed the concept of the ID, the Ego and the Superego. The id is described as an impulsive, selfish side to our personality which is ruled by a pleasure principle, the superego is the moral part of our personality which recognises right from wrong; and our ego is the part of our mind which tries to rationalise and arbitrate both sides of our thoughts. Freud believed that there were two main causes of abnormality in general.
Question 2: Critically discuss the basic principles of CP. Situate your argument by referring to how a specific school can be manipulated to either perpetuate ideologies and ideas or how it can facilitate critical thinking. In discussing the basic principles of Critical Psychology, we need to establish what Critical psychology is – what its basic concerns are, etc. After doing that and reaching an understanding of what critical psychology is, we can look at how specific schools can be manipulated to either perpetuate ideologies and ideas or how it can facilitate critical thinking. Critical psychology is an approach rather than a theory, an orientation towards psychological knowledge and practice – and to relations of power in general.
Two of the earliest forms of Cognitive behavioral Therapy were Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), developed by Albert Ellis in the 1950s, and Cognitive Therapy, developed by Aaron T. Beck in the 1960s. Cognitive Therapy Assumptions: • Abnormal behavior is caused by abnormal thinking processes • We interact with the world through our mental representation of it • If our mental representations are inaccurate or our ways of reasoning are inadequate then our emotions and behavior may become disordered The cognitive therapist teaches clients how to identify distorted cognitions through a process of evaluation. The clients learn to discriminate between their own thoughts and reality. They learn the influence that cognition has on their feelings, and they are taught to recognize observe and monitor their own thoughts. The behavior part of the therapy involves setting
Scientific Study of Personality Paper Aldonza Gonzalez PSYCH 504/Personality Theories 1/21/13 Tracy Masiello Scientific Study of Personality Paper In defining who we are, there needs to be an understanding of our personality. With different kind of personality types, classifying an individual into a single type of personality can be difficult. Further, individuals have many different types of personality traits like possessed behavior, actions, and attitudes. This paper will explore the definition of personalities from an individual and psychological point of view. Three methods of research in studying personality will be explored that includes case studies, correlational designs, and experimental designs or true experiments.
In Goleman’s convincing presentation of emotional intelligence, the psychologist uses cognitive science to explain his theory. McCrimon’s publishing differentiates thought and positional leadership. Goleman’s E.I. Daniel Goleman’s article, The Emotional Intelligence of Leaders, begins by laying a scientific foundation in which he explains emotional intelligence is generated from within the functional areas of the brain. However he argues a clear difference between rational (I.Q.)
Clinical psychology is concern with the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of individuals who have mental problems, disabilities and abnormal behaviours, and seek to achieve physical and psychological well-being. Important terms and definitions 1. Behavioral data- Observational reports about the behavior of organisms and the conditions under which the behavior occurs or changes. 2. Biomedical therapies- Treatments for psychological disorders that alter brain functioning with chemical or physical interventions such as drug therapy, surgery, or electroconvulsive therapy.
The cognitive behavioural theory is a psychological perspective which was born out of behaviourism and cognitive psychology. It added cognitive explanations regarding the acquiring of psychological disorders. It, unlike behaviourism, considers the learning process as much more than the stimulus-response associations. It regards the learner as actively aware and actively interpreting the situation in line of what has been acquired in the past and imposing a perceptual funnel on experience [Plante, 1999]. The existential perspective is closely related to the humanistic perspective.