![]() ![]() ![]() Skinner behaviorist who expanded the basic ideas of behaviorism to include the idea of reinforcement- environmental stimuli that either encourage or discourage certain responses humanism modern psychological viewpoint that stresses individual choice and free will suggests that we choose most of our behaviors and these choices are guided by physiological, emotional or spiritual needs not easily tested by the scientific method includes theorists Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers biopsychology modern psychological perspective that explains human thought and behavior strictly in terms of biological processes (e.g. Psychoanalysis theory that states a part of our mind over which we do not have conscious control determines, in part, how we think and behave Sigmund Freud revolutionized psychology with his psychoanalytic theory believed the unconscious mind must be examined through dream analysis, word association, and other psychoanalytic therapy techniques criticized for being unscientific and creating unverifiable theories behaviorism theory that states psychologists should look at only behavior and causes of behavior, and not concern themselves with describing elements of consciousness dominant school of thought in psychology from the 1920s through the 1960s John Watson psychologist who believed the science must limit itself to observable phenomena wanted to establish behaviorism as the dominant paradigm of psychology B.
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