Aspects of Psychology
Arnecia Anderson
American Intercontinental University

Aspects of Psychology
In this assignment we were to get a healthier understanding about psychology. In this paper I chose three perspectives to research. The three perspectives I chose were Behaviorism, Cognitive, and Psychodynamic theories .I answered questions relating to the perspectives such as, how they are even related to today’s Psychology .I hope this paper is as informative to my readers as it was to me.

Aspects of Psychology In this assignment we were to get a better understand psychology in the present day. With doing so I researched the various theories of psychology. I chose three perspective to talk about in my paper Behaviorism, Cognitive, and Psychodynamic theories. The word behaviorism converses to the school of psychology founded by John B. Watson created on the belief that behaviors can be measured, trained, and changed. Behaviorism is also called behavioral psychology, which is a theory of learning established on the idea that all behaviors are learned through conditioning. What is conditioning? Conditioning transpires through interaction with the environment. Behaviorists trust that the environment around human beings forms our behaviors. For starters how a person was raised plays a big part in there behavior. An individual's upbringing can guide them in the right direction and it can guide them also the wrong direction. Not to mention what type of live living situation they were raised in can also play a big role in a person's behavior. For example, if a male was brought up in a single-parent home, with only a mother that was in a poor neighborhood, nine times out of 10 the male would steer