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Cognitive approach

The Cognitive Approach to studying behavior focuses on how internal thoughts and feelings influence one's behavior. The cognitive approach argues that the way we process information influences our behavior. The cognitive approach developed around the 1950s due to increasing dissatisfaction with Behaviourism, the dominant school of scientific psychology. Behaviorists, such as B. F. Skinner, argued that only behavior...

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