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Nature of psychology Different Viewing Behaviors from Different Perspectives Psychologists look at different phenomenons of psychological interest in different prospectives. Perspectives are different approaches or views of psychology. Different psychologists make different assumptions about which aspects of a person worth studying. There are five major perspectives in psychology, but I'm going to introduce four of them only, the behavioral, cognitive, psychoanalytic and humanistic perspectives. In behavioral perspective, psychologists focus on observable behavior, but not on thoughts and feelings. They emphasis the importance of the learning experience in what makes people behave the way they do.Most human behaviors are seen as being learned and conditioned. We can study the first case through a behavioral perspective called stimulus-response psychology. It suggests that a behavior called conditional response is caused by a conditional stimulus. In that cas