Recent Trends of Psychology: Just to include the perspectives?

Theories of learning: ? I have studied conditioning etc but basically which types?

Nature of perceptual Organization : What should I include in this question? Just the Gestalt laws?

I'll answer your queries in the order you posted them

1- The recent trends or contemporary schools of thought:

Feldman mentions 5 modern perspectives, but there are some other perspectives too, though not as important as the ones identified by Feldman, but still worth mentioning.

a- Evoluionary Perspectve
b- Socio-cultural perspective
c- Behaviour genetics
d- Positive Psychology


You can find material on these from internet


2- Theroies of learning include

a- Learning by Observation (aka learning by modelling, imitating or vicarious learning)

b- Learning by Cognition (Gestalt school refers to it as Learning by Insight)

c- Learning by Trial and Error (aka learning by law and effect)

d- Learning by conditioning( The most generally accepted and imp theory. It also encompasses many types of condiioning inclduing
i- Classical Conditioning
ii- Operant Conditioning
iii- Avoidance Conditioning
iv- Escape Conditioning
v- Instrumental Conditioninga

Conditioning also involves many phenomena like Acquisition, Time, Generalization, Discrimination, Extinction, spontaneous recovery and reinforcement etc. You need to have adequate knowledge of these as well


3- As of the nature of perceptual organization, you first need to give a brief reference to the two contemporary theories of how sensory information is perceived (the sequential processing & the interactive processing) and then emphasize Gestalt Laws of perceptual Organisation as the building blocks of perceptual organization. This latter portion can be segmented in two parts

a- The governing principles of Gestalt Organization

i- Law of figure and ground

ii- Law of Grouping

b- Gestalt laws of organization: These are further laws like Law of similarity, closure, proximity etc. which have been derived from their parent law i.e. the Law of Grouping).


References: Rakhshanda Shahnaz and David Myers

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Hello, i need guidance in few topics of psychology paper two.
1) phases of growth, developement and maturation?
2) characteristics of growth, maturation and developement?
plz guide me

rubraiz, fine answer but u made me confused..
trends are school of thoughts?
i thought trends are applications or scope of psychology
let me clear this concept that school of thoughts are of how many types..means aren't they just 3, struturalism,functionalism and gestaltism?
and the trends which u mentioned are perspectives or approaches rather than schools..
tell me the clear cut concept plz

regards

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