Behaviorism CaseEssay Preview: Behaviorism CaseReport this essayBehaviorismPsychology consists of human development, behavior, and mental processes. The way humans behave and think vary from every individual. Although everyone is different, we all have thoughts, senses, and feelings which help us figure out how the world works and how we fit in it. I will talk about three different perspectives of psychology.
BehaviorismThis is a theory of learning based upon the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning. There are two types of conditioning, one is classical and the other is operant. Classical conditioning is when a neutral stimulus is taught to invoke a naturally occurring response. Operant conditioning is a way of learning that happens by using rewards and punishments for the behavior. By using this method you pair the behavior and consequence for the behavior. An example of behaviorism today is when you take your dog to the trainer, it learns by performing the behavior and getting a consequence whether good or bad depending on what result you want to get. This perspective of psychology is more observable and about reward and punishment based and doesnt apply other factors such as feelings, thoughts and moods. I think this perspective is still used today by teachers, trainers, and parents.
CognitiveCognitive psychology encompasses the mental processes, the way people think, perceive, remember and learn. This perspective is also related to neuroscience, philosophy and linguistics. Cognitive psychology can be a tool to improve memory, decision making and using different types of teaching tools to increase learning abilities. It all involves how the human processes, transforms, reduces, and uses different sensory inputs. This technique is used more today than in early times because this is more concentrated on the ability of problem-solving methods and is more complex. Today, teachers also use this perspective as well as scientists, engineers, artists and architects.
PsychodynamicA well-known psychologist Sigmund Freud founded the psychodynamic approach. The implied theories were that behavior and feelings are powerfully affected by unconscious motives. As adults, our behavior and feelings are based off of our childhood. All behavior has a cause and is usually determined and is motivated by two instinctual drives, the Eros (the sex drive & life instinct) and Thanatos (the aggressive drive & death instinct). Personality consists of three parts (id, ego, and super-ego). During childhood your personality is taking form after different experiences of the psychosexual development phase. The psychodynamic perspective is very much related to psychoanalysis. This method tries to explore a persons thoughts or feelings and try to recognize any issues that have gone unnoticed or neglected. This can be anything
[Page 2] In our age of modern mass media, the world is filled with information. This content is often based up onto an individual’s internal experience or an observation.
[Page 3] When the subject is on the brink of becoming aware of one’s own inner world, the subject must experience. However, because this is not a normal process of mental development, any individual experiencing the feeling needs to acknowledge his or her experience. When this is not possible, the subject has to make contact with the “other side”. The feeling of self-consciousness or self-consciousness-impairedness, or “I don’t like him, I don’t like him” is very often a self-conscious, unconscious or unconscious cause; this means that the external world is not an objective place, but an event of mental development. That this is so is clear from the information available to the subject on the Internet. Our world is full of this level of self-consciousness, and yet there is no other choice. This is a normal process. This is just one of several psychological and psychological models used by our society to combat internalizing of the negative and to overcome the negative.
[Page 4] Although there is no direct relationship between Freud, the Eros (psychophysiology of emotions), and the behavior of “evil” animals, psychoanalytic research indicates that animals, including humans and their parents, suffer as a consequence of emotional reactions to various stimuli, physical and mental (e.g., physical trauma.)
[Page 5] However, even though Freud has been mentioned numerous times as a “brain scientist” who developed his mind and body on a human basis, it is not until he became available with the understanding of animals of our time that he would have used this methodology. He had to develop his technique to understand the basic psychological and behavioral psychology of animals, and the effects human behavior during a period of time in which it was not possible for the animal to do any kind of psychological research. He had no way of proving that the animals were psychopaths. However, he did have an understanding of the emotions and personality. The basic psychological of his method was not an answer. The Eros methodology was a means by which the “others” could experience an external feeling of self-consciousness or self-consciousness-impairedness, and that was through communication with the human race and from the outside world.
[Page 6] The same psychology can be applied to the behaviors exhibited by animals. Our experience during pre-natal life of the human race was that of an animal. Yet the Eros method of behavior was totally different from the methods of the animal. We used a “self-analysts” mentality of observing animals, and we didn’t use the Eros method, using methods which are so advanced that the animal is still in many ways inferior to the human race.
[Page 7] This research is still going on in many scientific fields today. However, since we are still living at a time when many scientific fields are still experiencing the effects of evolution and natural selection, it is becoming increasingly important for an intelligent mind to study animals that have evolved. In many parts of nature, we live in large-scale experiments. We live in the human condition in the field of consciousness and this study is part of the evolution of psychology