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Author Joshua Blake Frye Unit 1: Psychology's History and Approaches Empiricism ? the view that knowledge originates in experience and that science should, therefore, rely on observation and experimentation. Structuralism ? an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the structural elements of the human mind. Functionalism ? a school of psychology that focused on how our mental and behavioral processes function - how they enable us to adapt, survive, and flourish. Experimental psychology ? the study of behavior and thinking using the experimental method. Behaviorism ? the view that psychology (1) should be an objective science that (2) studies behavior without reference to mental processes. Most scientists agree with number (1) but not with (2).
