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  2. Functional psychology - Wikipedia

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    Structural psychology was concerned with mental contents while functionalism is concerned with mental operations. It is argued that structural psychology emanated from philosophy and remained closely allied to it, while functionalism has a close ally in biology. [4] William James is considered to be the founder of functional psychology. But he ...

  3. Maturity (psychological) - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, maturity can be operationally defined as the level of psychological functioning (measured through standards like the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) one can attain, after which the level of psychological functioning no longer increases much with age.

  4. Process-oriented psychology - Wikipedia

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    Process oriented psychology was originated in the 1970s by Arnold Mindell, an American Jungian analyst then living in Switzerland. [4]: 107 It began as a development of Jungian psychology with the concept of a 'dreambody' that extended dream analysis to include work with people's body symptoms and bodily experiences.

  5. Dual process theory - Wikipedia

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    The dual process has impact on social psychology in such domains as stereotyping, categorization, and judgment. Especially, the study of automaticity and of implicit in dual process theories has the most influence on a person's perception. People usually perceive other people's information and categorize them by age, gender, race, or role.

  6. Process theory - Wikipedia

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    Process theories are used to explain how decisions are made [4] how software is designed [5] [6] and how software processes are improved. [7] Motivation theories can be classified broadly into two different perspectives: Content and Process theories. Content theories deal with “what” motivates people and it is concerned with individual ...

  7. Sensory processing sensitivity - Wikipedia

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    A human with a particularly high measure of SPS is considered to have "hypersensitivity", or be a highly sensitive person (HSP). [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The terms SPS and HSP were coined in the mid-1990s by psychologists Elaine Aron and her husband Arthur Aron , who developed the Highly Sensitive Person Scale (HSPS) questionnaire by which SPS is measured ...

  8. Automatic and controlled processes - Wikipedia

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    Automatic and controlled processes (ACP) are the two categories of cognitive processing.All cognitive processes fall into one or both of those two categories. The amounts of "processing power", attention, and effort a process requires is the primary factor used to determine whether it's a controlled or an automatic process.

  9. Identity formation - Wikipedia

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    [4] The process defines individuals to others and themselves. Various factors make up a person's actual identity, including a sense of continuity, [5] a sense of uniqueness from others, and a sense of affiliation based on their membership in various groups like family, ethnicity, and occupation. These group identities demonstrate the human need ...