Social Cultural Perspective Psychology

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Vannari Sang
Swett
Psy 201A
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The Strengths and Weaknesses of Social Cultural Perspective in Psychology There are six main perspectives in psychology; cognitive, biological, humanistic, psychodynamic, behavioral, and social cultural. The cognitive perspective studies how the brain processes and perceives information while the biological perspective studies things that affect behavior. The psychodynamic perspective digs into subconscious thoughts and behaviors based off of childhood experiences and the behavioral perspective studies behavior learned by experiences and interactions with the world. Finally, the social cultural perspective studies how social and cultural factors influence behavior. In this essay, I will go over the strengths and weaknesses of the social cultural perspectives in psychology. The social cultural perspective in psychology helps recognize patterns in behaviors through social cognition and helps build communities through social influence, but falls short in recognizing individuality. The sociocultral perspective in psychology has helped identify similar traits in communities. Through these studies, we have identified patterns that connect people to different …show more content…

Lev Vygotsky’s studies connected cognitive and educational development to social influences during childhood and their effects on behaviors on a social and individual level. Social influencers can be someone from a teacher to a celebrity. A positive social influencer brings communities together for social and personal development. One very famous current social influencer is Donald Trump and some feel very strongly that he is a poor example of one while others feel differently. Many of the people who have an opinion of him either absolutely hate him or love him which has caused many conflicts. His presidency, it feels like, has divided the country into Trump supporters and

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