Psychology: Perspectives, Approaches, and Research Methods

Running Head: PSYCHOLOGY
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Psychology
11/20/2018

PSYCHOLOGY
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Contents
TASK-2....................................................................................................................................5
Q1. Need for a Scientific Approach in psychology...............................................................5
Q2. Suitability of any research method.................................................................................5
Q3. Range of Ethical issues in the Psychological case study................................................6
References................................................................................................................................ 7

PSYCHOLOGY
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The assignment brings about the assessment based on psychology and the related concepts
such as different approaches and perspectives. It includes two parts, first is the essay which
explains different perspectives to psychology, and the viewpoints of psychologists on the
chosen approach. Psychodynamic approach has been taken for the analysis in this
assignment, and the second part which includes aspects of scientific approach and the ethical
issues in psychology.
TASK -1 (ESSAY)
Psychology refers to the science of behaviour and mind that includes the phenomenon of
being conscious and un-conscious and human thought. It has been studied that the study of
psychology deals with human nature and behavioural aspects, therefore the psychologists has
utilized different perspectives to study and acquire understanding about how people think,
feel, and behave. Seven major perspectives in modern psychology include biological
perspective, cognitive perspective, and behavioural perspective, psychodynamic &
humanistic approach to psychology. Other two approaches to psychology consist of
evolutionary perspective, and the cross-cultural perspective (Colman, 2016).
Briefly stating about these approaches, behavioural psychology is one of the most common
perspective that explains the impact of environmental factors (stimuli) on our observable
behaviour, called as response. Thus, it considers the cause and effect relationship between
environmental factors and the resultant behaviour of individual. Sigmund’s Theory of
psychodynamics is well recognised as it is the combination of aspects of subconscious,
denial, repression, and the anal personality of an individual. Biological psychology
determines the fact that genetics & evolution vitally influences individual’s behaviour. In a
similar way, other perspectives relatively influence human behaviour in some or other way
(Nardi, 2018).
From the above mentioned perspectives, psychodynamic approach to psychology has been
opted for the analysis. Psychodynamic theory by Sigmund Freud is still popular and widely
applied theory of psychology, which defines the core of the theory stating that the childhood
events of an individual tend to influence his/her behaviour as adults. Psychodynamics is
termed as the study of interrelationship of various parts of the mind, personality, or psyche of
an individual as they are related to the mental, emotional and the motivational aspects of the
unconscious level (Neisser, 2014).