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William Wunt started the concept of introspection when he made the first psychological laboratory. William James then discussed functionalism when he wrote The Principles of Psychology. Neither of these topics impact the thinking of psychologists today.

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Introspection relies on the observation of ones mental state. It can be defined as the examination of one's own conscious thoughts and feelings

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Interpretation focused on people analyzing their own thoughts and feelings.

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Max Wertneimer believed in a broader theory. It was one that focused on the whole experience verses just the parts and the world verses how we feel in a moment.

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This wave of psychology focused on the unconscious, this hidden place in your mind. It also dealt with our defense mechanisms.

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Behaviorism was all about how you behaved, your actions. It was not focused on how the person felt.

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This theory is a combination of different views. Psychologists can pick and choose from these to help their patients. The seven schools of perspectives are Biopsychology, Evolutionary, Psychoanalytic, Behavioral, Humanist, Cognitive, and Social-cultural perspective.

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The Gestalt theory suggests that we do not focus on just one piece at a time. We can take the parts and perceive them as a whole, possibly something other than what they are. For example, still frames put together to make a movie appear to be moving.

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Gestalt Psychology believes our minds are able to put factors together and create something other than what it is or see things in multiple ways. A picture can have 2 views depending on how your mind perceives the parts at the time.

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The main belief is that people have these unconscious thoughts, beliefs, and desires that make us act the way we do.  They believed if you brought these to the surface, you could cure the person.

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Behaviorists believe our experiences and environment determine our actions. They believe we can train ourselves to be whatever we want by conditioning.

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Because a therapist is not just utilizing one school of thought, they can broaden their methods of helping a patient and make it specific to that patient.

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It does not matter how you feel, only how you act. People can present themselves in a way to appear differently than how they really feel.

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This is the belief that we all have repressed feelings and memories that are affecting us. These could also make us say something we did not mean to say, but felt deep down.

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Therapists can use multiple schools of thought to help patients depending on what they are going through.