Biological perspective
How body and brain enable emotions, memories, sensory experiences
Brain circuits
Evolutionary perspective
How natural selection or traits promoted survival of genes
Psychodynamic perspective
How behavior springs from unconscious drive and conflict
Behavioral perspective
How we learn observable behaviors
External stimuli
Cognitive perspective
Interpretation of a situation affects our thinking
How we encode, process, store and retrieve information
Humanistic perspective
How we meet our needs for love and acceptance and achieve self fulfillment
Social cultural perspective
How behavior and thinking vary across situations and cultures