Understanding People exercise

Complete the following exercise:

1. Select a psychological phenomenon, something that a person might be interested in trying to change. See several examples here: http://www.yorku.ca/rsheese2/1010/1120l.docx .

2. Select two or more approaches to the study of psychology/personality described by Butt (and listed at the end of the same url).

3. Summarize your sense of the ways in which the chosen approaches differ regarding how they would try to understand or explain the phenomenon you selected.

4. Summarize your sense of how these two approaches differ regarding what they might suggest for trying to change the phenomenon.