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Perhaps the most well known branch, Psychoanalysis was founded by [[Sigmund Freud]] and focuses on the three divisions of the mind, the [[Ego]], the [[Superego]], and the [[Id]]. Freud proposed that the Id, being completly unconscious, was in control of our wants and desires, and demanded immediate satisfaction of its wants. The Superego was responsible for our ethical sense, seeking to supress the Id, and the Ego balanced the needs of the Id and Superego. The Ego operates on what Freud termed the "reality principle", operating in a rational and pragmatic fashion.
Perhaps the most well known branch, Psychoanalysis was founded by [[Sigmund Freud]] and focuses on the three divisions of the mind, the [[Ego]], the [[Superego]], and the [[Id]]. Freud proposed that the Id, being completly unconscious, was in control of our wants and desires, and demanded immediate satisfaction of its wants. The Superego was responsible for our ethical sense, seeking to supress the Id, and the Ego balanced the needs of the Id and Superego. The Ego operates on what Freud termed the "reality principle", operating in a rational and pragmatic fashion.
==Behaviorism==
==Behaviorism==
The weaknesses in Frued's theory were the strenghts that made up Behaviorism. Instead of attempting to describe the complexity of the mind, the Behaviorist branch focused on behavior. In the view of Behaviorists, the internal workins of the ind are too complex to be measured in an objective and scientific fashion, and that behaviors, being observable, are the best way to describe the mind. Humans, for the sake of study, were de facte lumped into the same category as animals, making behaviorism a more general science.
== See also ==
== See also ==