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Neuroscience:The study of the brain and nervous system, including molecular neuroscience, cellular neuroscience,

cognitive neuroscience, psychophysics, computational modelling and diseases of the nervous system.

Psychoanalysisis a psychological theory conceived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

byAustrian neurologistSigmund Freud.Psychoanalysis has expanded, been criticized and developed in different

directions, mostly by some of Freud's former students, such asAlfred Adler and Jung, Wilhelm and later by neo-

Freudians such asErich Fromm,Karen Horney,Harry Stack Sullivan andJacques Lacan.

The basic tenets of psychoanalysis include the following:

1. Human behavior, experience, and cognition are largely determined by irrational drives;

2. Those drives are largelyunconscious;

3. Attempts to bring those drives into awareness meetpsychological resistance in the form ofdefence

mechanisms;

4. Beside the inherited constitution of personality, one's development is determined by events in early childhood;

5. Conflicts between conscious view of reality and unconscious (repressed) material can result in mental

disturbances such as neurosis, neurotic traits, anxiety, depression etc.;

6. The liberation from the effects of the unconscious material is achieved through bringing this material into the

consciousness (via e.g. skilled guidance).

Behavioral psychology, also known as behaviorism, is a theory of learning based upon the idea that all behaviors are

acquired through conditioning. Conditioning occurs through interaction with the environment. According to

behaviorism, behavior can be studied in a systematic and observable manner with no consideration of internal mental

states.

2 major types of conditioning:

Classical conditioning is a technique used in behavioral training in which a naturally occurring stimulus is paired with a

response. Next, a previously neutral stimulus is paired with the naturally occurring stimulus. Eventually, the previously

neutral stimulus comes to evoke the response without the presence of the naturally occurring stimulus. The two

elements are then known as the conditioned stimulus and the conditioned response.

Operant conditioning Operant conditioning (sometimes referred to as instrumental conditioning) is a method of

learning that occurs through rewards and punishments for behavior. Through operant conditioning, an association is

made between a behavior and a consequence for that behavior.

Cognitive:Having to do with thought, judgment, or knowledge.

Humanistic- of or pertaining to a philosophy asserting human dignity and man's capacity for fulfillment through reason

and scientific method and often rejecting religion.

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