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AP Psychology 1.3 History and Approaches. The school of thought that focused on how a person's conscious experiences affect their development and ability to reach the fullest potential is known as what?

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we were going to make a joke but well we decided against it yes that's the way [Man sat at a table with a plate of cookies]

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the cookie crumbles okay here's your question the school of thought developed

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in the 1950s that focused on how a person's conscious experiences affect

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his or her development and ability to reach the fullest potential is known as

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what and here are the potential answers... [mumbling]

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....Alright settle in it's time to dive a little deeper into the

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[Man laid on a sofa with a psychologist] wonderful world of psychology first up behaviorism, well behaviorism is a

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school of thought most linked to John B Watson and BF Skinner it's concerned

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with observable events and the way in which behavior can be influenced by [John B Watson and BF Skinner]

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external factors and events.. It doesn't sound like the right answer to us but

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that could have something to do with the big red X that's crossing it out on the

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screen moving on to B psychoanalysis.. well, psychoanalysis was created by

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Sigmund Freud and it suggests that previous experiences can remain harbored [Sigmund Freud and a boy appears]

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in one unconscious mind and serve to influence the actions of that individual

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later in life might not be the right answer but maybe it can explain why we

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have such a fear of the dentist or maybe dentists are just evil incarnate in disguise.. [Boy with a dentist and the dentist turns into evil incarnate]

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all right structuralism is a form of psychology developed by Wilhelm Wundt

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and Edward B Titchener its aim was to simplify the understanding of the mind

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by breaking it down into simple definable components before considering

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how they work together to form more complex human experiences in the spirit [Wundt and Titchener with a cookie in between them]

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of structuralism let's simplify that a bit, it's also known as the wrong answer well

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functionalism is all about function surprise surprise it deals with things

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such as your wants, your opinions and your beliefs and how they all serve a

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functional role in relation to one another and any associated behavior [Lots of different emoji faces]

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basically think of the brain as one big functional computer system working as a

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single unit, it's a compelling idea but not the one we're looking for that

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leaves us with E; humanistic psychology well that's a branch of psychology that

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examines how conscious thoughts and free will determine

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behavior humanistic psychology believes that we do things because we choose to [Sigmund Freud appears with a pipe]

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do them and in this case we're choosing this as the right answer...

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