Psychology Schools of Thought The Simpsons Edition.
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Patient: Bart Simpson
• Oldest of three children• Only male child• Mischievous behavior• Parents caught him hitting cars with a
slingshot and took him to 7 different psychologists…
Biological/Neuroscience School
• Focus: brain and body chemistry. • Bart's behavior = something physically going
wrong with his body. • They would look at Bart's brain for
abnormalities, check his blood chemistry and diet, and maybe put him on medication.
Evolutionary School
• Focus: process of natural selection.• Way back in the caveman days, Bart's great
great great great great great great great great great great grandfather also misbehaved.
• For some reason this trait helped Bart's ancestors to survive and they passed this trait all the way down to Bart.
Psychodynamic School
• Focus: unconscious drives (Freud)• In Bart's case, a person from the
psychodynamic school might say that Bart acts out because he actually has sexual feelings for his mother (hidden in the unconscious)
• To ignore those feelings, he does the opposite of his true desire (a defense mechanism called reaction formation) and tries to annoy her.
Behavioral School
• Focus: observable behaviors • If Bart was angry and shot a stone at Flanders’
car, the behavioral school would only focus on the behavior and not his feelings.
• They might do something like shock Bart every time he tries to use his slingshot. Bart would eventually associate the shocking behavior with his misbehavior and stop it.
Humanistic School
• Focus: self-actualization • They would listen to Bart and hear out his problems.
They would tell him to focus on the healthy person they know he can be.
• For Humanists believe that everyone has thepower to solve their own problems if they can shed themselves of that negative vibe.
• Scientists always have the most trouble dealing with the Humanistic school because it is really hard to tell if it works.
Cognitive School
• Focus: how we interpret, process and remember events.
• They would say that Bart acts out because he has learned that that is the best way to deal with the world.
• They would help Bart develop alternative cognitive strategies
Social-Cultural School
• Focus: Social and Cultural Influences • We all grow up in different environments, with
various religions, family structures, money etc... All of these things effect the way we think and act.
• In Bart's case it could be a number of things:–A smarty-pants little sister–A baby sister fixated at the oral stage–A busy stay-at-home mom–A father who may not be the best male
role model