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Different approaches to Psychology

  • Structuralism

    Structuralism

    a psychologist who studies the basic elements that make up conscious mental experiences
  • Inheritable traits

    Inheritable traits

    Understand how hereidity is passed from parents to children, influences abilities, charcter, and behavior
  • Functionalism

    Functionalism

    Stuided how animals and people adapt to their enviroments.
  • Gestalt pschology

    Gestalt pschology

    Disagreed with the principles of structuralism and behaviorism
  • Psychoanalyst

    Psychoanalyst

    A patient would say everything that came to mind
  • Behaviorist

    Behaviorist

    a psychologist who analyzes how organisms learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in the environment
  • Cognitivist

    Cognitivist

    a psychologist who studies how we process, store, retrieve, and use information and how thought processes influence our behavior
  • Humanist

    Humanist

    a psychologist who believes that each person has freedom in directing his or her future and achieving personal growth
  • Psychobiologist

    Psychobiologist

    a psychologist who studies how physical and chemical changes in our bodies influence our behavior
  • Sociocultural

    Sociocultural