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Define Psychology - ️️The scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Functionalism - ️️Studies the way the mind functions. Psychoanalysis - ️️An approach to understanding behavior and mental processes developed by Freud, which focuses on unconscious processes and unresolved conflicts. (Freud) Behavioral Perspective - ️️An approach to understanding behavior and mental processes that emphasizes objective, observable environmental influences on overt behavior. (Watson and Skinner) Behaviorism - ️️Scientific study of observable behavior. Humanistic - ️️Focuses on current environment, how it affects individual, and whether basic needs of love and acceptance were being met. Humanistic - ️️An approach to understanding behavior and mental processes that perceives human nature as naturally positive and growth seeking; it emphasizes free will and self-actualization. (Maslow and Rogers) Cognitive Psychology - ️️Used technological advances to study psychology's original focus of internal/cognitive processes. Brain activity vs mental. Thinking, perceiving, problem solving, memory, language, and information processing. Biopsychosocial Model - ️️An integrative, unifying theme of modern psychology that sees biological, psychological, and social processes as interacting influences.