Exploring Theoretical Perspectives



Exploring Theoretical Perspectives

Introduction

Human behavior is an integral part of psychological studies. The working of a human mind has an integral part in shaping of the human behavior. The word behavior was coined in olden times as old as the 16th century, when studies started to originate on the behavior of humans and how the behavior originate and change in an individual with the passage of time. The words has its roots in old English that appeared as old as the 600 AD, reflecting the long history of the term behavior and how it originates as well changes over time in a human being (Crain, 2011).

Human behavior has been one of the most studied chapters in the field of psychology, with extensive theories listed for the origination and functioning of human behavior. After an extensive study of the perspectives of human behavior, human behavior is becoming a subject of study that can be studied in multiple ways. The assignment would take into account the theoretical orientations that the student aligns most closely with and how the theories affect the view with which the student perceives human behavior (Kail, 2004).

Discussion

After studying the theories of understanding human behavior in detail, there has been a change in the perspective of the student as how human behavior is perceived and judged by him. There are eight major human behavior perspectives that define the human behavior in its true sense, while maintaining a different perspective about it.

Systems perspective

Humanistic perspective

Social behavioral perspective

Developmental perspective

Psychodynamic perspective

Social constructionist perspective

Rational choice perspective

Conflict perspective

Personally, I align human behavior most closely to the 'Developmental Perspective'. The perspective deals with human behavior on a basis of how human behavior develops and unfolds over the course oh his life span. The human behavior is judged and perceived through the stages that ...