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•Led by Max Wertheimer, these guys focused not on how we feel, but on how we experience the world.
*The whole of an experience can be more than the sum of its parts.
• Gestalt: a movement in psychology that was founded in Germany in 1912, that explained perceptions in terms of gestalts rather than by observing their constituents.
- The Gestalt psychologists looked at the totality of the mind and behavior.
- He purchased a toy stroboscope which showed pictures in a fast sequence to copy the appearing movement. Max got the idea of this approach because of this experience.
- There were two other psychologists who took part in finding this approach. One was Kurt Koffka he had different interests and studied a variety of topics like learning, perceptions, and hearing impairments. Another was Wolfgang Kohlar who was known for his research on problem-solving and introspection.

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This about variety.
• Psychologists pick and choose what theories to use depending on the situation and the client.
-An Eclectic Perspective in psychotherapy is that puts aspects of two or more different approaches to meet the needs of a client.
- Eclectic psychology includes:
-Evolutionary
- Humanism
- Biological
- Behavioral
- Social- cognative and
- Psychoanalytic

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• During this time period (early to mid 1900's) people started to ignore how you feel inside.
•All that mattered was how you acted.
• If you could change your behavior, who cares how you feel.
• Very popular during the conservative 1950s when social appearance mattered more than self expression.
-Watson promoted a change in psychology through his address psychology as the Behaviorist sees it.
-Behaviorism: this is also known as the psychological approach. This approach observes the stimulus- response behaviors and it says that behaviors are learned through interaction or contact with the environment.

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• This wave of thinking started with *Sigmund Freud (in the early 1900's)
• During this time, people believed that most of your feelings come from a hidden place in your mind called the unconcious.
• We protect ourselves from our real feeling by using *defense mechanisms.
•Psychoanalysis- Freud believed that people could be cured by making conscious their unconscious thoughts and motivations, thus gaining “insight”.
• Dreams used to tap into the unconscious mind.
• Freudian Slip: an unintentional error regarded as revealing subconscious feelings.
-Defense Mechanisms: work at an unconscious level and help keep off unpleasant feelings or it just makes things feel better for a person

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• Started with William Wundt's first psychological laboratory and his concept of introspection (structuralism).
• William James wrote "The principles of psychology"
• These ideas do not have much impact on how psychologists think today.
• Psychology: the study of the human mind and functions
• Introspection: the examination of one owns conscious thoughts and feelings.
• Functionalism: Belief in or stress on the practical application of a thing, in particular.
• Structuralism: method of interpretation and analysis of aspects of human cognition, behavior, culture, and experience that focuses on relationships of contrast between elements in a conceptual system that reflect patterns underlying a superficial diversity.