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AP Psychology 3.3 History and Approaches. Which school of thought matches the description given?
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- 00:04
And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by happiness we [Man waving]
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were gonna say brought to you by apathy but right here's our question which
- 00:12
school claims that observable actions and habits of a species should be
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studied instead of their thought processes and here are potential answer
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well we'll start by
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given answer C the boot cognitive by definition is the study of mental [Doctor looks inside mans head]
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processes otherwise known as the exact opposite of what we're looking for it's
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kind of like looking for the match to a sock and finding a large toad instead [Girl searches for sock and picks up a toad]
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Not tha toads are the opposite of socks but well you get the idea... humanistic
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psychology is also more about thought than behavior it refers to a
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psychological perspective that grew popular in the middle of the 20th
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century and focused on the individuals goal of self-actualization which is just [Dart lands in a dart board]
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a fancy way of saying discovering one's own meaning in life which is just a
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fancy way of saying being happy. E isn't what we're looking for either
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evolutionary psychology attempts to explain traits such as memory, language
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and perception as a result of natural selection Thank You Darwin in short it's
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looking at how evolution has shaped the mind and behavior and has nothing to do [Animals morphing into new species]
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with observable actions or habits and even though it's pretty nifty branch of
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psychology it still can't answer why our little brother has yet to evolve into a [Little brother on a branch and big brother appears]
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normal non annoying person... biological psychology is the study of the
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biological brain and the way in which its development contributes to the
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behavior of humans and animals and hey speaking of brain development and think [Person with brain for a head writing baby names]
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about this the brain named itself while this branch does deal with behavior it
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focuses on the neurobiological level long story short it's not quite what
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we're looking for now that we've wrapped our self-named brains around that fun [Girl wrapping a brain]
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fact let's take a look at B as in behavioral psychology, well behavioral
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psychology was created as a reaction to the early cognitive psychological work
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being done throughout the early 20th century early behaviorist felt that
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attempts to understand human thought processes were futile and shallow no [Group of men stood looking inside a man's head]
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doubt due in part to the limited technology available at the time
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and that real and honest research could only be conducted on observable actions [Doctors high-fiving]
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and habits that sounds like B is our winner now to return to our favorite
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habit well hey the internet wont browse itself....
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