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List AND describe the 7 perspectives of psychology

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Step-by-step explanation:

Psychodynamic: This emphases the role which the unconscious mind, early childhood experiences, and interpersonal relationships to explain human behavior, as well as to treat mental illness.

Behavioral: Focuses on learned behaviors and is concerned with how behaviors are learned and reinforced.

Cognitive: Focuses on mental processes like memory, thinking, problem-solving, language, and decision making.

Biological: emphasizes the physical and biological bases of behavior.

Cross- Cultural: looks at human behaviors across different cultures.

Evolutionary: focuses on the study of how the theory of evolution can explain physiological processes.

Humanistic:emphasizes the role of motivation in thought and behavior.

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