List and define the four major perspectives in modern psychology
What will be an ideal response?
A good answer will include the following key points.
• The biological perspective focuses on how bodily events affect behavior, feelings, and thoughts.
• The learning perspective is concerned with how the environment and experience affect a person's (or a nonhuman animal's) actions.
• The cognitive perspective emphasizes what goes on in people's heads—how people reason, remember, understand language, solve problems, explain experiences, acquire moral standards, and form beliefs.
• The sociocultural perspective focuses on social and cultural forces outside the individual, forces that shape every aspect of behavior.
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