Humanists argue that your subjective view of yourself and your world is the only view that has any psychological reality. The evolutionary approach assumes that human mental abilities, like physical abilities, evolved over millions of years to serve a particular purpose. The Sociocultural Approach Culture is a set of concepts, values and assumptions about life developed to increase survival and satisfaction, and communicated or shared with others in the same environment. The sociocultural approach to psychology argues that, to predict individual behavior, it is necessary to take into account very broad influences, including the individual s environment, social organization, community, cultural values and family. Behavior a. Ecology represents the physical environment.
Responses develop into habits and customs or culture.
Teaching children how to fit into social setting involves socialization. Individual patterns of responding and interacting with the environment is part of personality. This chain of events leads to individual behavior. 2nd phase Context of Discovery Context of Discovery is the initial phase of research during which an investigator comes up with a new idea or a different way of thinking about phenomena. Asking Research Questions Proposing Explanations Overcoming Research Biases Asking Research Questions.