What perspective of psychology focuses on environmental rewards and punishers that maintain or discourage specific behaviors?

the discipline concerned with behavior and mental processes and how they are affected by an organism's external and internal environment. 

[pretty much how our inside is affected by our outside]

PSYCHOLOGY VS. 

POPULAR OPINION VS. 

SERIOUS PSYCHOLOGY

RESEARCH EVIDENCE 

1. ask questions/ willing to wonder

2. define terms

3. examine the evidence

4. analyze assumptions and biases

5. avoid emotional reasoning

6. don't oversimplify

7. consider other interpretations

8. tolerate uncertainty

structuralism

funtionalism

psychoanalysis 

1. the biological perspective

2. the learning perspective

3. the cognitive perspective

4. the sociocultural perspective

5. the psychodynamic perspective 

1. teach and conduct research in colleges and universities

2. provide health or mental health services 

3. conduct research or apply its findings in nonacademic settings 

1. those who try to understand and improve physical and mental health

2. practitioners of psychology work in mental or general hospitals etc

3. types of practitioners: counseling psychologists, school psychologists 

4. types of non clinical psychologist practitions: social worker, psychotherapists 

how biology affects learning and performance, perceptions of reality, the experience of emotion, and vulnerability to emotional disorder 

*the contributions of genes and other biological factors in the development of abilities and personality traits 

Evolutionary psychology

concerned with how the environment and experience affect a person's actions 

behaviorists

social-cognitive learning theorists 

combine elements of behaviorism with research on thoughts, values, expectations, and intention. 

believe that people learn not only by adapting their behavior to the environment but also by imitating others and by thinking about the events happening around them. 

focuses on social and cultural forces outside the individual 

social psychologists

cultural psychologist 

counseling psychologists 

school psychologists

clinical psychologists