Psychodynamic and Evolutionary Views: comparison
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Compare and contrast three of the ten different perspectives (specific theories) of early psychology described in your text or on the internet. These theories include: Structuralism, Functionalism, Behaviorism, Gestalt, Psychodynamic, Humanistic, Evolutionary, Physiological, Cognitive, and Culture and Diversity.
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Psychodynamic and Evolutionary Views: comparison
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Psychodynamic view in psychology is more suited for the practice of psycho therapy.
This view holds the basic idea that the human behavior and thinking is guided by the psychological effects of how the environmental conditions affect a given person. Various
Socio cultural factors are at work in experiences felt by the human beings and therefore, all these environmental factors are essential to the study of the psychodynamics. Emotions and motivations are very important sub-topics in this field of theoretical understanding for why a certain human being acts in one way or another.
Evolutionary psychology theory look sat the growth of the human beings from an evolutionary perspective. The role of animal evolution in the evolution of human race is also studied. Various research studies conducted on animals in the laboratory and or their natural surroundings are carried out to form animal models ...
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