CONCEPTION OF HUMAN NATURE

1. BIOLOGICAL: The human animal

2. COGNITIVE: The human as thinker and information processor

3. PSYCHODYNAMIC: The human as controlled by inner forces and conflicts

4. BEHAVIORAL: The human as a reactor to the environment

5. HUMANISTIC: The human as free agent, seeking self-actualization and    personal meaning

6. SOCIOCULTURAL: The human as a social being embedded in a culture

MAJOR CAUSAL FACTORS IN BEHAVIOUR

1. BIOLOGICAL: Genetic and evolutionary factors; brain and biochemical processes

2. COGNITIVE: Thought, anticipations, planning, perception, and memory processes.

3. PSYCHODYNAMIC: Unconscious motives, conflicts, and defenses; early childhood experiences and unsolved conflict.

4. BEHAVIORAL: Past learning experiences and the stimuli and behavioral consequences that exist in current environment

5. HUMANISTIC: Free will, choice and innate drive toward self actualization, search for personal meaning of existence.

6. SOCIOCULTURAL: Social forces, including norms, socio interactions, and group processes in one’s culture and socio environment.