- Established in the 1950s in America by Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow - The humanistic approach is seen as the third force in psychology (after behaviourist and the psychodynamic approach) - The approach formed largely due to concerns from the therapists regarding...
PSYCHOLOGY - The scientific study of the human mind and its functions, especially those functions affecting behaviour in a given context SCIENCE - The means of acquiring knowledge through systematic and objective investigation - The aim is to discover general laws and...
- Bandura agreed with behaviourists that behaviour is learnt through experience - However, he believes that behaviour is not learnt through conditioning - Argued that classical and operant conditioning could not account for all human learning - There are important...
- Predates psychology but established in the 1980s due to advances in technology - Emphasises the importance of physical processes in the body such as genetic inheritance - Suggests that everything psychological is at first biological so to fully understand behaviour...