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Functionalism
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a general psychological philosophy that considers mental life and behavior in terms of active adaptation to the person's environment.
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Structuralism
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This theory focused on three things: the individual elements of consciousness, how they organized into more complex experiences, and how these mental phenomena correlated with physical events
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Cognitivism
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a theoretical approach in understanding the mind using quantitative, positivist and scientific methods, that describes mental functions as information processing models
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Gestalt Psychology
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a theory of mind and brain positing that the operational principle of the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies
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Behaviourism
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a philosophy of psychology based on the proposition that all things that organisms do—including acting, thinking and feeling—can and should be regarded as behaviors. The behaviorist school of thought maintains that behaviors as such can be described scientifically without recourse either to internal physiological events or to hypothetical constructs such as the mind
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Developmental Psychology
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the scientific study of systematic psychological changes that occur in human beings over the course of their life span
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Social Psychology
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the study of the relations between people and groups
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