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psychology - ️️the scientific study of behavior and mental processes objective introspection - ️️the process of examining and measuring one's own thoughts and mental activities functionalism - ️️early perspective in psychology associated with William James, in which the focus of study is how the mind allows people to adapt, live, work, and play Gestalt psychology - ️️early perspective in psychology focusing on perception and sensation, particularly the perception of patterns and whole firgures psychoanalysis - ️️Freud's term for both the theory of personality and the therapy based no it; an insight therapy based on the theory of Freud, emphasizing the revealing of unconscicous conflicts behaviorism - ️️the science of behavior that focuses on observable behavior only psychodynamic perspective - ️️modern version of psychoanalysis that is more focused on the development of a sense of self and the discovery of other motivations behind a person's behavior than sexual motivations behavioral perspective - ️️psychological perspective that focuses on how behavioral responses are learned through classical or operant conditioning humanistic perspective - ️️psychological perspective that focuses on human potential, free will, and possibility of self-actualization