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Structurlism
An approach to psychology that focuses on basic elements that make up conscious mental experiences. -
Inheritable Traits
Characteristics that an organism gets from its parents. -
Functionalism
An approach that focuses on the function of consiousness. -
Gestalt
The type of psychology that studies whole, intact segments of behavior and cognitive experience. -
Psychonalysis
An approach that studies how unconscious motives and conflict determine human behavior feelings and thougts. -
Behaviorism
An approach that analyzes how organism learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in the enviroment. -
Cognitive
Study of thought and mental processes -
Humanistic Psychology
Concentrates on the ways that studying humans differ from studying objects or animals, including issues such as experience awareness and free will . -
Psychobiology
the branch of science that deals with the biological basis of behavior and mental phenomena. -
Sociocultural
The newest approach to psychology involves studying the influence of cultural and ethnic similarities and differences in behavior and social functioning.
