Psychology Approaches

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  • Structurlism

    Structurlism

    An approach to psychology that focuses on basic elements that make up conscious mental experiences.
  • Inheritable Traits

    Inheritable Traits

    Characteristics that an organism gets from its parents.
  • Functionalism

    Functionalism

    An approach that focuses on the function of consiousness.
  • Gestalt

    Gestalt

    The type of psychology that studies whole, intact segments of behavior and cognitive experience.
  • Psychonalysis

    Psychonalysis

    An approach that studies how unconscious motives and conflict determine human behavior feelings and thougts.
  • Behaviorism

    Behaviorism

    An approach that analyzes how organism learn or modify their behavior based on their response to events in the enviroment.
  • Cognitive

    Cognitive

    Study of thought and mental processes
  • Humanistic Psychology

    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

    Psychobiology

    the branch of science that deals with the biological basis of behavior and mental phenomena.
  • Sociocultural

    Sociocultural

    The newest approach to psychology involves studying the influence of cultural and ethnic similarities and differences in behavior and social functioning.