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Approaches: Vocab
Definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Structuralism | early perspective using introspection to investigate the units and elements of our minds |
| Functionalism | early perspective investigating how we perceive and adapt to our environments |
| Behavioral approach | how we learn from experience within our environments and our behavioral responses to stimuli |
| Psychoanalytic/dynamic | how unconscious conflicts, motives and defenses influence thoughts, feelings and behaviors |
| Humanistic | our individual potential for self motivated growth towards our unique potential and improved self-esteem |
| Biological | how physiological, biochemical and neuroanatomical factors influence our behavior and mental processes |
| Cognitive | processing information; how we think, reason, speak and how or memory works |
| Evolutionary | how natural selection favored behaviors that led to our survival and spread our ancestors’ genes |
| Sociocultural | how social and cultural factors influence our behavior; ethnicity, gender, socioeconomics etc |
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