In the approaches section, we’ve now gone through the history of experimental psychology , which started with…
We’ve now gone through the history of experimental psychology, which started with Wilhelm Wundt.
And we’ve looked at all of the approaches to psychology which followed…
We’ve also looked at all of the approaches to psychology which followed Wundt.
First was the psychodynamic approach, followed by the behaviourist approach, then the cognitive approach.
Meanwhile, alongside the history of psychology, biologists were also studying human behaviour.
And now , one of the main approaches to psychology is called cognitive neuroscience , which is sort of a combination of the…
Now , one of the main approaches to psychology is called cognitive neuroscience , which is sort of a combination of the cognitive and biological approaches.
Finally, we’ve also looked at two other responses to the behaviourist approach: Albert Bandura’s social learning theory , and the humanistic approach to psychology .
Now, in Paper 2, you’ll also need to be able to evaluate and compare each of these approaches.
And so, in this section, we’re going to look at how to get those tasty evaluation marks for each approach.
But first, we need to look briefly at four different ways we can compare the approaches.
And we’ll go through all four of these next, starting with free will vs determinism .
