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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by happiness we [Man waving]

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were gonna say brought to you by apathy but right here's our question which

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school claims that observable actions and habits of a species should be

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studied instead of their thought processes and here are potential answer

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well we'll start by

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given answer C the boot cognitive by definition is the study of mental [Doctor looks inside mans head]

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processes otherwise known as the exact opposite of what we're looking for it's

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kind of like looking for the match to a sock and finding a large toad instead [Girl searches for sock and picks up a toad]

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Not tha toads are the opposite of socks but well you get the idea... humanistic

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psychology is also more about thought than behavior it refers to a

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psychological perspective that grew popular in the middle of the 20th

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century and focused on the individuals goal of self-actualization which is just [Dart lands in a dart board]

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a fancy way of saying discovering one's own meaning in life which is just a

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fancy way of saying being happy. E isn't what we're looking for either

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evolutionary psychology attempts to explain traits such as memory, language

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and perception as a result of natural selection Thank You Darwin in short it's

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looking at how evolution has shaped the mind and behavior and has nothing to do [Animals morphing into new species]

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with observable actions or habits and even though it's pretty nifty branch of

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psychology it still can't answer why our little brother has yet to evolve into a [Little brother on a branch and big brother appears]

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normal non annoying person... biological psychology is the study of the

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biological brain and the way in which its development contributes to the

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behavior of humans and animals and hey speaking of brain development and think [Person with brain for a head writing baby names]

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about this the brain named itself while this branch does deal with behavior it

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focuses on the neurobiological level long story short it's not quite what

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we're looking for now that we've wrapped our self-named brains around that fun [Girl wrapping a brain]

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fact let's take a look at B as in behavioral psychology, well behavioral

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psychology was created as a reaction to the early cognitive psychological work

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being done throughout the early 20th century early behaviorist felt that

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attempts to understand human thought processes were futile and shallow no [Group of men stood looking inside a man's head]

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doubt due in part to the limited technology available at the time

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and that real and honest research could only be conducted on observable actions [Doctors high-fiving]

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and habits that sounds like B is our winner now to return to our favorite

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habit well hey the internet wont browse itself....

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