Early Psychological Approaches

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·      Studies, thinking, learning, personality and perception as a whole

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Gestalt Psychology

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·      Focuses on observable behaviors and disregards mental processes

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Behaviorism

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Creator of Gestalt Psychology

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Wertheimer

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Considers behaviors in terms of active adaptation

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Functionalism

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Introduced animals into psychology

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Functionalism

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Created learning and I/O psychology

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Functionalism

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What school of psychology did Watson introduce

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Behaviorism

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Believed introspection was unscientific because there was no way to settle disputes between observers

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Watson (Behaviorism)

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• Emphasizes the study of observable actions over the study of the mind

• Studies how a subject may respond to a stimulus

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Behaviorism

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Creator of Radical Behaviorism

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Skinner