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The theory that elements of human culture must be understood in terms of their relationship to a larger, overarching system or structure.
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The passing of phenotypic traits from parents to their offspring.
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The theory about the nature of mental states.
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The study of perception and behavior from the standpoint of an individual's response to configurational wholes with stress on the uniformity of psychological and physiological events and rejection of analysis into discrete events of stimulus, percept, and response
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Psychological theory and therapy that aims to treat mental disorders by investigating the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements in the mind and bringing repressed fears and conflicts into the conscious mind by techniques such as dream interpretation and free association.
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The study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and thinking.
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A psychological perspective that emphasizes thestudy of the whole person
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The theory that human and animal behavior can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to thoughts or feelings, and that psychological disorders are best treated by altering behavior patterns.
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The branch of science that deals with the biological basis of behavior and mental phenomena.
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The combining social and cultural factors.