The perspectives of psychology are as follows.
- Biological Perspective: focuses on bodily, changes, brain chemistry, genes, evolution in shaping our behavior
- Humanistic Perspective: we strive for self-actualization, we have free will, positive psychology, unconditional positive regard
- self-actualization which focuses on reaching our full potential must move through Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
- Behavioral Perspective: Our behavior is shaped by our environment and the reinforcements and punishments we receive, we also learn through modeling and imitation
- Cognitive Perspective: This perspective focuses on thought processes and what goes on inside our head that influences our behavior
- Psychoanalytic Perspective: Freud’s perspective, focuses on unconscious thoughts and desires, and repressed early childhood memories and defense mechanisms
- Socio-cultural Perspective focuses on norms, rules, roles, and values from our society and their influence on our behavior
