Question

Brandon is a psychologist who is studying the relationship between heredity and mood disorders. He strongly believes that behavior and mental processes have a connection with the brain, hormones, heredity, and evolution. Brandon's beliefs are most consistent with the _____ perspective.

a. humanistic-existential.
b. biological.
c. psychodynamic.
d. cognitive.

Answer 1

b) Biological

Step-by-step explanation:

In psychology, there are various approaches to explain the relationship between heredity and mood disorders.

Some of these approaches are:

1. Humanistic-existential: This approach gives more importance to the environment the individual is living in and specially on the needs and potential growth of the individual. Behavior has a strong component that has it roots in the fully development of an individual.
2. Biological: This approach gives importance to the biology. Behavior has a strong component that has to do with brain, hormones, evolution and all that has to do with biology.
3. Psychodynamic: This approach gives importance to childhood and the past. Behavior has to do with how our needs were or were not satisfied by our primary caregivers.
4. Cognitive: This approach gives importance to our thoughts about our behavior. Behavior has to do with the thoughts we have of it and therefore, if we change the thoughts and bias we have, our behavior will change too.

In this example Brandon strongly believes that behavior has a connection with the brain, hormones, heredity and evolution. We can see that the main focus of Brandon is the biology behind our behaviour.

Therefore we can tell that Brandon's beliefs are most consistent with the biological perspective.