Foundations Of Psychology

Behavior is a set of acts that are determinated by culture, attitudes, emotions, personal and cultural values, ethic, exercise of authority, persuasion, and genetics. There are many sciences thatstudy various aspect of life, such a, psychology.
Psychology is an academic field that the human mind, such as the mental processes (thinking, remembering, feeling, etc.) and behavior Kowalski andWesten (2011). Many consider human behavior very complicated, but it is not, because from the beginning human beings have demonstrated their interest in learning about their surroundings and use it totheir benefit and comfort, although men is curious, creative to invent a number of ways to communicate, to facilitate human life and survival.
Human behavior and modern scientific investigation ofmental processes could be understood better through four major perspectives or schools of thought: psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and evolutionary perspectives. Each perspective or school ofthought has its unique approach, the psychodynamic perspective developed by Freud, “it proposes that people’s actions reflect the way thoughts, feelings, and wishes are associated in their minds; that manyof these processes are unconscious; and that mental processes can conflict with one another, leading to compromises among competing motives” (Kowalski & Westen, 2011 p.15). The approach in thisschool is based on clinical observation and case studies. However, clinical observations may open interpretations that many psychologists could be skeptical about psychodynamic ideas according to Kowalskiand Westen (2011). However, this perspective allows researchers to have a more in-depth study on behavior.
The behavioral perspective also known as behaviorism that was introduced in the twentiethcentury by John Watson and B. F. Skinner who developed behaviorism into a full-fledge perspective (Kowalski & Westen, 2011). This school of thought explains the relation among observable behavior...