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6 perspectives, Advantages: Only perspective that uses the body for a…
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Advantages: Only perspective that uses the body for a reasoning behind behavior. It has helped explain mental illnesses better.
Disadvantages: It doesn't recognize environmental factors and only uses internal activities.
"Biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump." -Willard Van Orman Quine
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Advantages: It shows how the way we keep information and our mind works, affects our behavior and feelings.
Disadvantages: It compares the mind with computers even if humans and machines are different.
"Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on the memory for vivid anecdotes rather than the systematic statistics." -Steven Pinker
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Advantages: It made the careful observation of behavior important which inspired other perspectives. Disadvantages: It doesn't recognize the importance of mental process.
B.F. Skinner, Ivan Pavlov, Edward Thorndike and John B. Watson
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Advantages: People have a better and positive image of people. It brings out the healthy and positive things.
Disadvantages: It uses free will as an explanation of people's behavior and it believes all humans are good.
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Advantages: The id, ego and superego show a person's personality.
Disadvantages: Freud's beliefs were too focused on sex like all important choices were made around sex.
"Every dream will relieve itself as a psychological structure, full of significance." -Sigmund Freud
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Advantages: Made psychology more representative and included larger groups in researches.
Disadvantages: Stereotypes
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