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  2. List of social psychology theories - Wikipedia

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    Social exchange theory – is an economic social theory that assumes human relationships are based on rational choice and cost-benefit analyses. If one partner's costs begin to outweigh his or her benefits, that person may leave the relationship, especially if there are good alternatives available. Social identity theory – was developed by ...

  3. Category:Psychological theories - Wikipedia

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    Anxiety buffer disruption theory. Appraisal theory. Approach/Inhibition Theory of Power. Associationism. Associative interference. Atkinson–Shiffrin memory model. Attention schema theory. Attitude-behavior consistency. Attribution (psychology)

  4. Freud's psychoanalytic theories - Wikipedia

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    The Psychopathology of Everyday Life is one of the most important books in psychology. It was written by Freud in 1901 and it laid the basis for the theory of psychoanalysis. The book contains twelve chapters on forgetting things such as names, childhood memories, mistakes, clumsiness, slips of the tongue, and determinism of the unconscious.

  5. Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia

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    Maslow's hierarchy of needs is often represented as a pyramid, with the more basic needs at the bottom. Maslow's hierarchy of needs is an idea in psychology proposed by American psychologist Abraham Maslow in his 1943 paper "A Theory of Human Motivation" in the journal Psychological Review.

  6. Cognitive psychology - Wikipedia

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    Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of mental processes such as attention, language use, memory, perception, problem solving, creativity, and reasoning.. Cognitive psychology originated in the 1960s in a break from behaviourism, which held from the 1920s to 1950s that unobservable mental processes were outside the realm of empirical science.

  7. Psychology - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Psychology is the study of mind and behavior. [1] Its subject matter includes the behavior of humans and nonhumans, both conscious and unconscious phenomena, and mental processes such as thoughts, feelings, and motives. Psychology is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between the natural and social sciences.

  8. Self psychology - Wikipedia

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    Self psychology, a modern psychoanalytic theory and its clinical applications, was conceived by Heinz Kohut in Chicago in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, and is still developing as a contemporary form of psychoanalytic treatment. In self psychology, the effort is made to understand individuals from within their subjective experience via vicarious ...

  9. Social psychology - Wikipedia

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    Social psychology is the scientific study of how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are influenced by the actual, imagined, or implied presence of others. Social psychologists typically explain human behavior as a result of the relationship between mental states and social situations, studying the social conditions under which thoughts, feelings, and behaviors occur, and how these variables ...