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Understanding Psychological Traits and Characteristics

Extraversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism are the examples of psychological traits and characteristics. These traits are the product of combination of Genotype and phenotype or environmental factors. These traits and characteristics are so important as they determine the way people behave in the social setting. So, let’s begin understanding psychological traits and characteristics. Psychological […]

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The Bases of Human Behaviour in psychology

Psychology / Dnyanoba Gutte

There are various factors that determine how we act, think, and feel. Psychologists shortlist two major factors that play pivotal role in shaping human behaviour: Genotype and phenotype. Genotype refers to the genetic makeup of an individual, while phenotype refers to the observable characteristics of an individual. In this blog, “The Bases of Human Behaviour

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Understanding the Functional Perspective of Sociology

Sociology thinkers / Dnyanoba Gutte

Macro or functional perspective of sociology emphasis on the functional aspect of social reality. For, functionalist, society is a unified system of interdependent and interconnected parts that facilitates smooth functioning maintaining social order and stability. Understanding the Functional Perspective of Sociology is important to explore the complexities of social interactions as well as social stability.

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Behavioural and Humanistic Perspectives

Psychology / Dnyanoba Gutte

Both behavioural and humanistic psychological perspectives seem different but are complementary to each other. Behavioural enables you to learn how external environment or society affects your behaviour. On the other hand, humanistic makes you realise your internal potential being human to shape you own behaviour. Exploring the Behavioural Psychological Perspective Behavioural psychology is a branch

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Psychodynamic cognitive and behavioral perspectives

Psychology / Dnyanoba Gutte

In this post, we will explore Psychodynamic, cognitive, and behavioral psychological perspectives that help us to understand the different aspects of human mind. First, psychodynamic allows the researchers to unravel nature of unconscious mind. Second, Cognitive finds how our mind works to solve problems. And, behavioural explores the impact of society on mind. Let’s understand

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Structuralism Functionalism and Biological Perspectives

Psychology / Dnyanoba Gutte

It is unlikely to understand the most dynamic discipline psychology by single lens. Hence, different lenses need to be operated to understand every domain and construct perfect whole. In this blog, I’m going to provide a detailed explanation of each lens or perspective that laid the foundation of psychology. My prime focus would be on

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