AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Which approach is most directly concerned with assessing the relative impact of both nature and nurture on our psychological traits? Humanistic.

Detailed explanation-2: -The nature-nurture debate is concerned with the relative contribution that both influences make to human behavior, such as personality, cognitive traits, temperament and psychopathology.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Biological Perspective Biopsychology focuses on the physical and biological roots of behavior. For example, a biological psychologist may research the influence of genetics on behavior or the changes in personality after a person suffers damage to certain parts of the brain.

Detailed explanation-4: -Unlike the behavioral perspective, the cognitive perspective (as you would guess) is all about our cognitive processes. A cognitive psychologist looks at an individual’s behavior as a result of the way the individual interprets, perceives, and remembers the events and occurrences around them.

Detailed explanation-5: -Evolutionary psychology is a psychological approach that explains mind and behavior in term of the adaptive value of abilities that are preserved over time by natural selection. Social psychology is a subfield of psychology that studies the causes and consequences of interpersonal behavior.