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Which perspective emphasizes the potential for good?
The Humanistic Perspective
Humanistic psychology focuses on the importance of helping people achieve their full potential for well-being. Instead of focusing on abnormal psychology, the humanistic perspective emphasizes free will, self-actualization and self-efficacy.
What psychological research perspective focuses on the use of algorithms and heuristics to explain human behavior?
Cognitive Psychology
Cognitive theory contends that solutions to problems take the form of algorithms, heuristics, or insights. Major areas of research in cognitive psychology include perception, memory, categorization, knowledge representation, numerical cognition, language, and thinking.
What is the main emphasis of cognitive psychology?
Cognitive psychology is an area that focuses on the science of how people think. This branch of psychology explores a wide variety of mental processes, including how people think, use language, attend to information, and perceive their environments.
Who believed that the goal of psychology was to identify?
William James believed that psychology's purpose was to study the function of behavior in the world, and as such, his perspective was known as functionalism. Functionalism helped direct psychology toward a focus on solving problems. You just studied 16 terms!