Question

Psychology Assignment. Please Help?!

Answer 1

Take each of the situations below and write out how each of these approaches would explain the behavior: Behaviorism, Psychoanalytic, Humanism and Neurobiological.

1. Road rage or the extreme anger and behavior towards other drivers.

2. Helping a fellow student who had dropped all of their books down the stairs.

3. A new student not wanting to join in any activities at their new high school.


BEHAVIORISM - Caused by observable determinants from the environment

PSYCHOANALYSIS - Caused by unconscious instinctual drives and suppressed traumas from childhood

HUMANISM - Caused by our free will; Our drive to self actualize; Split between the “real” and “ideals”

NEUROBIOLOGICAL - Caused by genetics, chemical imbalances, and organic problems

Answer 2

Do you still need help on this?

Answer 3

Yes I do

Answer 4

Ok well lets work through it. What is your understanding of each of those four disciplines?

Answer 5

What I have wrote up there.

Answer 6

Ok well I can't do the assignment for you ;). Lets go through each paradigm. How would behaviorists explain each?

1.) Behaviorists would explain road rage as a reaction to cues in the environment. Mental phenomena are not considered as causing behavior. So it could be a response to traffic or anger in response to something another driver did. Reactionary.

What would you say for the other two?